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THIS FLORIST AND TOMOLOGIST. 



Twelve by Mr. Kearnshaw, Nottingham. 



Naxara. Plato, white. 



(Eil Noir, dark. Le Temeraire, red and white stripe. 



Orissa, striped. Eliza. 



Melange, red and yellow stripe. Herald. 



Bubro Magnificans, scarlet. Lame, white, purple edge. 



Viola La Vrai Noir, dark brown. Commodore Napier, yellow-edged. 



Mr. George Lightbody, Falkirk. 



Miranda, white, rose edge. Mrs. Trahar, white, rose edge. 



Dr. Horner, white, purple edge. Lord Berners, white, dark edge. 



Talisman, white, purple edge. Llorimel, white, rose edge. 



Prince Albert, dark edge. Pelopidas, white, purple edge. 



Sir P. Broke, cream, purple edge. Princess Louisa, white, "rose edge. 



Goldfmder, yellow, red edge. Chevalier, white, purple edge. 



Twelve by Mr. C. Tyso, Wallingford, Berks. 



Alexis, yellow, red spot. Fairy, white, crimson spot. 



Melancthon, cream, purple mottle. Eupatoria, white, purple edge. 



Festus, yellow, brown spot. Eva, gold, red edge. 



Naxara, very dark. Delectus, yellow red edge. 



Marquis of Hereford, crimson. Liffey. white, pvu'ple edge. 



California, yellow. Indicator, yellow, brown spot. 



Several other returns were imperfect in number or in colours. 



Carey Tyso. 



GLADIOLUS AND C ANN AS. 



I quite agree with your correspondent, " W. R. S.," in the November 

 Number of the Florist and Pomqlogist of the utility of the Gladiolus as 

 a pot plant, not as a specimen of itself either with a number of bulbs in a 

 large pot, or a single bulb in a 6-inch pot, which latter plan I think the most 

 useful, as the small pot can then stand among others, with the flower-stem 

 standing above the foliage of other plants. I planted four round beds this 

 year with Cannas of sorts as an experiment, having but little faith in them in 

 this very cold part of the country ; but it was in a well-sheltered part of the 

 garden^ and, to insure the beds from entire failure, I planted Gladiolus bulbs 

 of various sorts, or rather I should have said I planted the bulbs after thoroughly 

 preparing the beds for the Cannas early in April, for I have not found the 

 Gladiolus so fine grown in small pots as when planted out previous to com- 

 mencing growth. 



The Cannas were from seed sown in February ; and although the plants 

 were in a cold frame for two months before planting out, about the middle of 

 June the continuous cold wet weather killed the shoots of several varieties to 

 the ground ; but during warm weather, at the end of the summer, they made 

 plenty of fresh shoots, and although but few rose more than 2 feet 6 inches 

 high, many of the shoots flowered, and the Gladiolus fiower-stems set the fine 

 foliage of* the Cannas off to the best advantage. 



I did not edge either of the beds with Ribbon Grass because it looks brown 

 and rough early in the autumn, but used various of the Ornamental Grasses, 

 of which I grew about thirty sorts in various parts of the garden, selecting 

 those kinds for edging Canna-beds which kept a green healthy foliage until 

 the end of the season. 



The light-feathering foliage and flower-stems of the Grasses contrasted 



