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a circular, asking them to make a return of twelve sorts which they esteemed 

 most highly, and considered fit to place at an exhibition. The replies to 

 these circulars were varied, and not devoid of interest. Eight gentlemen 

 returned the lists of twelve sorts, and the colours, which are given at the foot 

 of this letter. Among others, one had discontinued his old favourite of twenty- 

 five years gone for newer and more modern claimants to his regard. One or 

 two never grew any seedlings, and cultivated the old sorts from year to year 

 until they exhausted them. Another doctored his collection with nostrums, 

 and lost 80 per cent, of his once-valued collection. Yet, further, one gentle- 

 man from sheer modesty wrote of one or two names, but could not commit 

 himself to twelve different sorts ; and a tenth response was that he grew none 

 under name, but all in mixtures. Most wrote of their affection for the 

 flower s and in regretful strains that they could not satisfactorily reply to my 

 solicitation. 



Subjoined, however, are the returns, and they will be sufficient to excite 

 interest in the flower ; and to give an indication of the position certain 

 varieties that are several times mentioned in the lists hold in the estimation of 

 the gentlemen whose names are hereunto annexed. In reference to several 

 cases, however, it may be stated that such as occur once onlv are seedlings of 

 modern origin, and this fact will account for their not being returned in other 

 lists. 



Twelve sorts returned by Mr. W. Littleboy, Benson, Oxon. 

 Eva, gold, red edge. Herald, white, crimson edge. 



Marquis of Hereford, crimson. A r ictor (Tyso's), dark purple. 



Melanctbon, white edge. Commodore Napier, sulphur, red edge. 



Sir ~W\ Hoste, yellow, red edge. Sir E. Sale, white, purple spot. 



Naxara, nearly "black. Play fair, orange, mottled. 



Eliza, sulphur. Sophia, white, red edge. 



Twelve by Mr. Calcott, Oxford. 



Eliza. Miss Eorbes, white, red spot. 



Temeraire, red and white stripe. Naxara. 



Sophia. Delectus, yellow, red edge. 



Apollo (Costar's), dark red. Edgar, yellow, brown edge. 



Apollo, crimson. Cedo Nulli, orange. 



Coronation, sulphur, mottled. Sabina, pale yellow. 



Twelve by Mr. John West, Shillingford, Oxon. 



Rose Incomparable, white, rose edge. Balcot. 



Venus, white, purple edge. Peine de Sheba, mottled. 



Mustapha. Eliza. 



Delight (West's), yellow, red edge. Delectus. 



Pertinax, yellow spot. Horatio, yellow, brown edge. 



Marquis of Hereford. * Kilgour's Princess, white, mottled. 



Eleven by Mr. John Waterston, Paisley. 



Anne Hathaway, white, pink edge. Humboldt, white, purple edge. 



Beritola, white, rose edge. Lord Gough, yellow, red edge. 



Chevalier, white, purple edge. Mackenzie, white, dark edge. 



Camperdown, white, purple edge. Mary Howitt, white, pink mottle. 



Dr. Darwin, yellow, red mottle. Jenny Meldrum, white, purple edge. 

 Ocano, cream, dark mottle. 



Twelve by Mr. Kirtland, Bletehington. 



Eliza. Coronation. 



Sophia. Brabancon, orange. 



Horatio. Quilla Filla, red mottle. 



Tillet's Blush, rosy mottle. Commodore Napier, yellow-edged. 



Model of Perfection. Naxara. 



Henning, white, purple edge. Apollo, crimson. 



