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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



' Solfaterre,' good early white tinged with yellow. 



' Madame Callot,' pale flesh, very large and very double. 



' Philomele,' bright pink guard petals with a yellow centre. 



' Eeine des Francais,' pale pink guard petals with white and pink centre 



very beautiful. 

 • Belle Chatelaine,' a very fine pale pink. 

 'Miss Salway,' ivory yellow. 



' Festiva Maxima,' paper white with crimson splashes. 

 ' Monsieur Bousselon,' loose blush white with prominent yellow 

 stamens. 



' Princess Beatrice,' bright pink guard petals with ivory and pink 

 centre, somewhat like ' Eeine des Francais.' 



' Princess Nicholas Eibere ' or ' Eibesco ' (it goes under both names), 

 silver pink guard petals, ivory yellow and pink centre. 



' Alba Maxima,' another good white. 



' Princess Patricia,' blush guard petals with ivory centre. 



' Lady Leonora B ram well.' For those who like a pink that seems as if 

 it had a tinge of blue in it this is a very fine plant ; very free- 

 blooming, strongly rose-scented. 



'Marquise de Lome,' silver pink with yellow stamens. 



' Marie Jaquin,' exactly like a white water lily, very beautiful. 



1 Vanderbilt,' pink guard petals, yellow centre. 



' Frances ' and ' Alexandrina,' two good pinks. 



But perhaps this list is too long. If so take — 



'Alba Superba' 'Duchesse de Nemours ' and 'Festiva Maxima,' three 



very fine but quite distinct whites. 

 ' Eeine des Francais ' and ' Philomele,' both indispensable. 

 ' Belle Chatelaine,' ' Frances,' and ' Marquise de Lorne,' three distinct 



shades of pink. 



Add to them ' Princess Nicholas Eibere ' (or ' Eibesco ') and ' Marie 

 Jaquin,' and you have ten of the best. But a really great difficulty is to 

 get them true to name. For instance, a worthless pink has done duty before 

 now for the glorious white ' Duchesse de Nemours ' which is sometimes 

 labelled ' Double Whitleyi.' ' Eeine des Francais ' and ' Philomele ' are also 

 sent out under misleading English names, and now that intercourse with 

 the Continent is so easy and so frequent the practice of rechristening 

 foreign-raised plants by English importers cannot be too strongly con- 

 demned. The figures are from photographs taken in the garden at 

 Coombe House, where these wonderful plants are grown to the utmost 

 perfection, and where they have stood undisturbed for eleven years, 

 giving an equally magnificent display annually since the third year from 

 planting. 



