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II. Colour. — If in a self, it should be dense 

 and clear ; if in an edged flower, concentrated and 

 well-defined: in both cases it should penetrate 

 through the petal, with an appearance of substance 

 and solidity. 



Defects. — The following are the defects : — In 

 Form — Want of roundness or of depth, flatness of 

 face, squareness of shoulder, sinking in the centre. 

 In the Rows — "Wide interstices between the florets in 

 each row, or between the rows themselves ; broken 

 circles, overhanging each other, or diminishing 

 abruptly ; want of arrangement, and looseness. In 

 the Floret — Notches or indentations on the edge, 

 sharp points, angularity, cupping too deeply with 

 wide mouths ; abrupt hollows in the face, or ribbi- 

 ness ; being too broad, coarse, or overwrapping each 

 other sideways, or being too narrow and guttery, or 

 not touching each other in the rows ; quilling or 

 curling, or shewing the back in any manner ; curling 

 too much upwards, turning quite back, or being up- 

 right in the centre ; want of substance, and not con- 

 cealing the scale. In the Colour — Cloudy, not mot- 

 tled ; thinly laid on in patches or in spots, or vari- 

 able ; not being the same at the back as on the face 

 of the petal. In Size — Being below the average, or 

 so large as to be coarse. Disqualifications — Shewing 

 yellow disk or a hard and scaly centre, cross eye, 

 petals damaged in any manner, blooms dead or decay- 



