io FLORA AND SYLVA, 



Flamingo, and Torch are all magnificent flowers, showy, and of good constitu- 

 tion. Topaz is elegant and refined, with a long glowing orange-red cup and 

 white perianth. Firebrand has also the perianth white, with a cup of perhaps 

 the deepest, most flaming colour yet attained. Some pretty flowers were ex- 

 hibited at various shows with cups of peach, apricot, and salmon tints ; perhaps 

 the best was named appropriately Peach. Salmonetta at Birmingham had 

 attractive colour, but lacked form and substance. Lady Margaret Boscawen 

 is still well in front among the giant Incomparabilis blooms. Mr. Engleheart 

 has also shown a very fine flower in Noble — deep yellow and saffron. Brigadier 

 has also high merit. 



The Leedsii section, one of great beauty and charm, has been very strongly 

 reinforced. Robert Berkeley and White Queen, so much alike that it requires 



a most expert eye to detect any difference, are both of them 

 The Leedsii flowers that seem quite faultless in size, substance, form, colour, 



and finish. The perianth is all that can be wished, and the cup 

 a marvel of refined beauty, tone, and modelling. The power of the hybridizer 

 is great, but if Mr. Engleheart can produce anything of their class to surpass 

 these two splendid flowers it will be little short of a marvel. Maggie May is also 

 a very beautiful thing, and with Ariadne and White Lady will be a standard 

 flower. The twins Seagull and Albatross are, as their names suggest, grand 

 white-winged spreading flowers, tall and robust. The cup of the former is of 

 a bright canary-colour, edged apricot, while the latter has a deep rim of orange- 

 scarlet. 



The Burbidgei group of Daffodils has obtained a much-needed strengthen- 

 ing by recent introductions, some of which have flat coin-like cups, though 



" cups " is hardly the word, for "saucers" more nearly describes 

 ThG Groups their form. It may possibly be necessary for the experts among 



our Narcissi authorities to look over, and pronounce upon, the 

 classification of many of the new hybrids which are matters of some doubt. 

 At Birmingham Mr. Engleheart showed a superb flower, Astrarderate, in the 

 very large " saucer" of which flame-colour was beautifully radiated. He had 

 also three lovely varieties in Egret, with its perfect smooth white perianth and 

 broad fluted flat cup ; Rosalind, also white in the solid perianth, and with the 

 cup richly edged orange-scarlet ; and Vivid, a very pleasing flower, with a 

 harmonious glow throughout, and a cup very fiery in colour. Blood Orange 

 was seen to advantage at Birmingham, and Imogen and other new flowers lent 

 much interest to this improved class. 



In the Poeticus section, too, the hybridizer has done much good work, 



and the progress is of great advantage. We have now flowers 



Poeticus Section. . . 



of exquisite fragrance in which the best qualities of the parent 

 plants are happily united. Some of these are as early as Ornatus, others 



