THE FLOWER GROWER'S GUIDE. 



White. 



fMrs. P. Fell 

 Mrs. Peart 

 *Miss Webster 

 Delicata 

 The Queen 



Maroon. 

 *Chas. Woodbridge 

 fMatchless 

 Arthur C'heal 

 Marquis 



* Harry Stredwick 

 Eegulus 



Yellow. 

 •Lady Penzance 

 fMrs. Barnes 

 •Bridesmaid 

 May Pictor 



Light. 



'White Queen 

 Kitty 



Little Snow-white 

 Mrs. Conninck 

 *Miss Henshaw 

 Florrie Fisher 



Yellow Shades. 

 'Golden Locks 



Forty-Eight Cactus. 



*Mrs. Kingsley Foster 

 fHarmony 

 Blanche Keith 

 Countess of Gosford 

 tMabel Keith 

 Mrs. L. Seymour 



Salmon. 



Man Hillier 

 flona 

 'Fusilier 



fMrs. Broughton Stirling 

 Mrs. Gordon Sloane 

 'Mrs. Wilson Noble 

 Mrs. A. Beck 

 Eoyal George 

 f Princess Ena 



Scarlet. 



'Cycle 



Twenty-Four Single Dahlias. 



Yellow Satin 

 Miss Roberts 

 Lutea grandinora 

 Aurora 

 'James Scobie 

 'Willie Fyfe 

 'Naomi Tighe 

 'Polly Eccles 

 Annie Hughes. 



fGloriosa 

 •Starfish 

 fMiss A. Jones 

 *J. E. Frewer 

 Bertha Mawley 

 Ernest Cannell 

 fMayor Haskins 

 Endymion 

 Mrs. Montifiore 

 Miss Nightingale 



Purple. 

 Purple Prince 

 Leonora 

 Beatrice 

 'Cinderella 

 Earl Pembroke 

 fValkyrie 

 Ernest Glasse 



Dark. 



•Amos Perry 

 'Mrs. Henshaw 

 *Duke of York 

 Demon 

 •Trilby 

 Cetewayo 

 'Nellie 

 Formosa 



Queen Mary 

 Alice Lee 

 Ivanhoe 

 Sir Walter 



Twelve Single Cactus. 



Meg Merrilees 

 Brenda 

 Lady Eowena 

 Bruce 



Pirate 

 Novar 

 Marmion 

 Althea 



THE DELPHINIUMS. 



Among the hardy flowers which owe so much of their perfect beauty to the art of 

 the florist, there are few so stately and imposing as the delphinium. The noble 

 hybrid larkspurs, which belong to the natural order of ranunculacea?, are understood to 

 be the offspring of about a dozen species ; formosum, grandiflorum, cheilanthum, and 

 elatum being the principal of these. The hybrids which have been obtained by the 

 union of these surpass their parents — attractive as these are— in stateliness and form, 

 and recent years have seen great improvements in colouring, which give even greater 



