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growth with faintly zonate leaves and close trusses of carmine-scarlet 
flowers, of the same colour as those of Emile Lemoine. 
Triomphe de Thumesnil**. a vigorous-habited sort of some merit; 
the leaves are green, not zoned ; while the flowers, which are scarlet 
with a faint tinge of cerise, are large and full. 
Troubadour. A tall coarse-growing variety, with indistinct zones and 
poor trusses of light scarlet flowers. 
Victor. A coarse-growing sort, with faintly zonate leaves, and orange- 
• scarlet flowers in good- sized trusses, but not equal to Le Vesuve. 
Victor (G. Smith)**. Dwarf and free-blooming in habit, with the leaves 
faintly zoned, and the scarlet flowers in compact trusses. The flowers 
are of the same colour as those of Wilhelm Pfitzer, and closely re- 
semble those of that variety, but the foliage is smaller. A variety 
well worth growing. Received from Mr. G. Smith. 
Victor Lemoine***. One of the finest of the varieties in the whole 
collection. The plant is of a rather vigorous habit of growth ; the 
leaves are marked with an indistinct zone, and the flower-trusses are 
larger. The flowers themselves are somewhat rough, having serrated 
petals; but they form a fine head, and are of a rich orange- scarlet, 
brighter than Le Vesuve. 
Vivian. A variety closely resembhg Gloire de Nancy in every respect, 
but scarcely equal to it in merit ; the leaves are very indistinctly zonate. 
Wilhelm Ffitzer **. One of the useful second-class sorts, of mode- 
rately vigorous growth, with indistinctly zonate leaves, and fair-sized 
trusses of good full flowers of a light scarlet colour. Received from 
Messrs. Carter and Co. 
Zelinda. Dwarf in habit, with indistinctly zonate leaves. The flowers 
are small and poor, scarlet, resembling those of Triomphe de Thumesnil, 
but not so freely produced. 
Eeport on Plants grown for Trial at Chiswick, 1869. 
By Thomas Moore, Ploral Director, R.H.S. 
Annuals. 
A considerable collection of annuals was presented by Messrs. Barr and 
Sugden, with the object that their capacity to endure cold might be tested. 
The greater portion of them failed to stand through the winter ; but those 
which were able to do so proved to be much finer and more lasting than 
the same sorts sown in spring. Some of them, indeed, were objects of greet 
beauty. The seeds of these annuals were sown in September 1868, and 
the following kinds flowered well in the spring of 18G9 : — 
