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From the foregoing lists, and from notes added to some of the 

 returns, we may safely infer that the best varieties for ordinary 

 garden purposes, having regard to constitution, will be found 

 amongst the following, and I name them in the order in which 

 I should personally place them : — 



A. Single Yellow Ajax. — Emperor, Glory of Leyden, Captain 

 Nelson, Countess of Annesley, John Nelson, Troilus (fig. 9), Ard 

 Righ, Rugilobus. Not one of these equals Maximus in colour, 

 but unfortunately it seems in some soils to be a shy bloomer, but 

 it is a grand variety. 



B. Single Bicolor Ajax. — Empress, Grandis, J. B. M. Camm, 

 Horsfieldii, Princeps, Dean Herbert, Michael Foster. Empress 

 (fig. 11), Grandis, and Horsfieldii are, to people unacquainted 

 with them, very similar, and might sometimes be mistaken for 

 each other. Horsfieldii is, perhaps, a trifle the largest, and a few 

 days the earliest of the three, but it lacks the splendid substance 

 of its rivals. Empress (fig. 11) and Grandis are glorious flowers, 

 the one opening a day or two before the other. Dean Herbert 

 and Michael Foster are both good, but somewhat similar. 



C. Single White Ajax. — Mme. de Graaff (fig. 12), Lady Gros- 

 venor, Cernuus pulcher, Colleen Bawn, Mrs. J. B. M. Camm, 

 Mrs. Vincent, Cernuus. Mme. de Graaff appears to be not only 

 undoubtedly the finest, but also the best constitutioned of all the 

 varieties of white Ajax. 



D. Double Daffodils. — Telamonius, Poeticus, Orange Phoenix, 

 Sulphur Phoenix, Incomparabilis, Odorus. The Double Jonquil 

 should never be absent from gardens in which it will grow ; it 

 scents the air all round. Telamonius is still the best all-round 

 Daffodil for out-of-doors effect. It does well planted in the 

 grass, but the foliage must not be mown off until it has quite 

 died down. 



E. Single Incomparabilis, dc. — Sir Watkin (fig. 15), Gloria 

 Mundi, Nelsoni aurantius, Duchess of Westminster, Barrii con- 

 spicuus, C. J. Backhouse, Princess Mary, Catherine Spurrell, 

 Cynosure, Maurice Vilmorin, Minnie Hume, Flora Wilson, 

 Nelsoni major, Gem, Sensation, Beauty, Splendens, Beatrice, 

 Mrs. Langtry, M. M. de Graaff. 



