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of the flowers is often preferred to the rounded 

 outline of others. It is one of the most popu- 

 lar garden varieties, spreading fast, neat, very 

 hardy, and doing well in heavy soils. 



Baronne de 'Rothschild. — A new variety 

 raised at Hyeres and named after Lady Alice 

 Rothschild by one of her gardeners. Like 

 Luxonne, but deeper in colour, with a large 

 long-petalled flower, borne upon good stalks. 

 Said to be a good winter flower, and one of the 

 largest in size. 



Bleue de Fontenay. — A flower of the perpe- 

 tual class, of a peculiar bronzed shade of purple; 

 uncommon and pretty in the rock-garden. 



Brum de Bourg la Reine. — The great value 

 of this kind is its lateness, making it useful to j 

 lengthen the season of flower ; a neat grower 

 with dark purple blossoms. 



California. — An American variety, and the 

 first of great size. With this plant the experi- i 

 ence of growers has been varied, some finding 

 it a failure and others just as warm in its praise ; 

 the explanation seems to be that it rarely does 

 well upon any but light warm soils, running 

 to coarse leaf when on stiff ground. It is vigo- 

 rous, almost rank in growth, with great length 

 of stem, and flowers of a light violet-blue, with 

 petals long, rather narrow, and the upper ones 

 set wide apart, giving the flower a distinct 

 appearance, combined with sweetness and a 

 graceful pose. It is not a neat grower, requires j 

 wide spacing, and becomes untidy without 

 frequent division, though its great vigour pre- 

 serves it in a great measure from red spider. It 

 is now replaced in many gardens by kinds of 

 better habit. 



CleveaonHall. — A plant forming small neat 

 masses for the rock-garden, with a wealth of 

 deep purple flowers in early spring. 



Comtesse Edmund Dutertre. — A new flower 

 of a fine clear blue, not large, but good in colour 

 and stem, and for autumn and winter bloom. 

 It does well with slight protection, coming in 

 early and lasting well. 



Czar. — An old deep-coloured flower and 

 still a great favourite, being very free and re- 

 liable, good in the autumn and on heavy soil, 

 very sweet, and of conspicuously neat habit. 

 It is now grown in an improved form as Smith's 

 Seedling, a plant valued by English growers. 



^Explorateur Dybowski. — Another of the j 

 older kinds ; a robust grower with flowers of | 



deep purple contrasted with foliage of light 

 green, and of long season. 



G/oire de Bourg la Reine. — An old kind still 

 much grown near Paris for its large sweet 

 flowers with very long stem. 



Gloire de Hyeres. — Another local kind, of 

 good form and habit, rather like Princess Bea- 

 trice, but valued by the southern growers for 

 its resistance to cold and its winter yield in 

 the open. 



Grosse bleue. — Mainly grown around Paris 

 as a succession to the southern Violets. It 

 flowers freely in autumn and again in spring 

 after an interval of some months, coming thus 

 to open and complete the season when other 

 supplies fail. It is of a pretty light shade, effec- 

 tive in bunches. 



Italia. — Sometimes grown on the Conti- 

 nent ; like California in colour and habit but 

 with a longer season. 



yohn Raddenbury. — A new Violet from 

 Australia with good form, vigour, and sweet- 

 ness, the flowers of a shade of light blue which 

 is new and attractive, and still furtherincreases 

 the range of colour found in Violets. 



Vine puis able. — A plant of the perpetual 

 class, with neat habit, toothed leaves, and flowers 

 of medium size, but with a long season, starting 

 in early autumn : not subject to red spider. 



La France. — A very large flower of dark 

 violet blue, very hardy and free, and afavourite 

 where dark flowers are preferred. It is of good 

 habit, shorter and neater than other large kinds, 

 with stout rigid stems which display the flowers 

 to perfection. It is for general purposes one of 

 the best kinds, young plants blooming very 

 early. 



he Lilas. — An old form of the perpetual 

 class, very early under glass or in the open, with 

 smallish flowers of rosy-lilac. 



Luxonne. — -A fine plant of the perpetual 

 class, deep in colour, robust and free even in 

 cold weather in its large-petalled flowers, point- 

 ed in outline, and of a pale blue. It suffers little 

 during summer, and is mostly free from insects 

 and disease. 



Madame D. Arene. — A plant like the pre- 

 ceding but deeper in colour and not so large ; 

 spreads fast. 



Mile. A. Pages. — A new perpetual flower, 

 with light blossoms flushed with rosy-purple, 

 fairly sweet, and neat in growth. Being small, 



