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Two HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE stocks and One hundred and seventy- 

 six varieties were received for trial. They came in very irregularly in 

 February, March, April, and- May. They were planted in a semi- 

 shaded position in fairly good soil that had been dug about one foot 

 deep. All the stocks made capital growth and flowered freely, making 

 beautiful masses of colour. Although this plant will grow on almost 

 any soil, in sun or shade, the finest results are always obtained from 

 vigorous young plants in soil that has been generously manured, and if 

 they are not permitted to form seed-pods they will continue blossoming 

 all through the summer and autumn. 



A.M. = Award of Merit. 



XXX = Highly Commended. . 



1. Accushla (Dickson, Forbes). — A strong, compact grower, suit- 

 able for bedding, having large foliage. It is very free flowering, and 

 has medium-sized flowers of very pale sulphury-white, beautifully 

 rayed with violet-purple and having the upper petal faintly tinged with 

 bluish-violet. 



2. Admiral of the Blues (Dobbie, Forbes). — A vigorous, spreading, 

 free -flowering variety, wuth medium foliage and large, violet-purple, 

 ray less flowers. 



3. Agnes Kay (Outhbertson, Dickson). — A good, free-flowering, 

 bedding variety of spreading habit, with large foliage, and big flowers 

 having the lower and side petals white edged with pale violet-blue, 

 while the upper petal is almost wholly violet-blue. Faintly rayed. 



4. Ajax (Dickson). — A very strong-growing and free-flowering 

 variety, having large flowers of palest greenish- white suffused with pale 

 heliotrope. A very pretty rayless Viola. 



5. A. J. Eowberry (Dickson), AM. June 25, 1895. — A strong, 

 spreading grower, with medium foliage, snd rB.yless flowers of pale 

 lemon-yellow. This was not considered by the Committee to be a true 

 stock of the variety. 



6. Alpha and Omega (MacPhail). — A strong, compact grower, with 

 medium foliage, and flowers of pale magenta with whitish middle and 

 Violet-purple rays. It was selected from a batch of seedlings, and on 

 account of the fact that it flowers over a very long period was given 

 this distinctive name. 



7. Arabella (Forbes). — An excellent, vigorous and compact bedder of 

 very free-flowering habit, with medium foliage, and large rayed flowers 

 of rich purplish plum-violet. 



8. Archie Grant (Outhbertson, Dickson, Dobbie, Forbes), A.M. 

 July 11, 1899. — A vigorous and compact grower, excellent for bedding 

 and very free-flowering. Flowers large, deep rich purple. 



