FLORISTS' FLOWERS 



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varieties are most popular, for as the tube of the ilhistration represents one of the older varieties, 

 flower is turned upwards, one can look right into it, which not a few high authorities consider superior to 



Gloxinia macolata, 



and take in its peculiar beauty at a glance. Some many more modern ones ; it is still to be found in 

 of the Drooping-flowered varieties are very hand- some gardens, and has of late been specially coni- 

 some, and it is well to have in a collection a number mended and again sought for, like many other fine 

 of each, as it lends a desirable variety to it. The old flowers. 



