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Subsection B. — Breeders. 



Definition : Self-coloured flowers, except as regards the 

 base. 



(1) Dutch Breeders. 



Definition : Flower oval or cupped, brown, purple, 

 or red, but sometimes bronze ; base white or 

 yellow, but generally stained blue or green to 

 blue-black. 



a. Roses. 



Definition : Pink to red. 

 May Queen, Charles Dickens. 



b. Bybloemen. 



Definition: Purple to violet. 



Bacchus, Cardinal Manning, Godet Parfait, Velvet 

 King. 



c. Bizarres. 



Definition : Shades of scarlet, bronze or brown. 

 Dom Pedro, Louis Quatorze, Panorama, Prince 

 of Orange. 



(2) English Breeders. 



Definition : Flower forming J to J of a hollow 

 ball when fully expanded ; base always white or 

 yellow, without trace of other colour. 



a. Roses. 



Definition : Rose shades, with white base. 

 Annie McGregor, Mabel, Mrs. Barlow, Rose Hill. 



b. Bybloemen. 



Definition : Purple shades, with white base. 

 Adonis, Elizabeth Pegg, Talisman. 



c. Bizarres. 



Definition : Brown shades, with yellow base. 

 Sir Joseph Paxton, Samuel Barlow, Sulphur, 

 Goldfmder. 



(3) Darwins. 



Definition : Lower portion of flower usually rect- 

 angular in outline ; segments of good substance ; 

 stems strong and tall ; colour, shades of purple, 

 red to white, never yellow or brown ; base black, 

 blue, or white, or any combination of these colours. 



a. Scarlet-vermilion. 



Isis, Feu Brillant, Whistler, City of Haarlem. 



b. Cochineal red. 



Farncombe Sanders, Van Poortliet, Prof. Rauwen- 

 hof, Europe. 



