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pots. It is one of the best red cups for keeping its colour in the sun. 
' Fleetwing ' belongs to the same group, and has a white perianth 
and a yellow cup. It is a good show bloom. ' Rochester 
Quinton ' is another of the same type, but here the cup is coloured. 
It was first shown at Birmingham in 1915. Five varieties with 
coloured cups are ' Isis ' and ' Jaspar/ yellow-perianthed Barriis, 
' Firebrand ' and ' Incognita/ white-perianthed Barriis, and f Sal- 
monetta/ a salmon-coloured Leedsii. All these coloured varieties 
need protection from sun and weather when opening, or the colour 
will soon go. They make good pot plants, especially ' Firebrand/ as 
the sun at the latter end of February and early in March affects them 
very little under glass. ' Jaspar ' is notable for the deep red of its 
cup. ' Sunrise ' is a very popular flower, and although it breaks the 
unwritten canons of the show tiers, inasmuch as it has a very consider- 
able amount of yellow in its perianth segments, it is frequently seen at 
exhibitions. It makes a beautiful cut bloom for vases. ' Sealing Wax ' is 
SiBarrii with white petals and an all-red eye. It very much resembles 
some of the Poet varieties ; in fact, the time has come when it is a 
question if the difference should any longer be kept up. It entirely 
depends upon parentage. 
' The Honourable Mrs. Francklin ' and the three following varieties 
are examples of Leedsiis. By a Leedsii is meant a flower in which 
the perianth is white and the corona or cup " white, cream, or pale 
citron, sometimes tinged with pink or apricot." 
The dividing line between a giant Leedsii and a bicolor is a very 
fine one, and in the case of a few varieties it is six for one and half a 
dozen for the other. The type is quite a new one, and from a garden 
standpoint is of great value, the plants being tall and as a rule in the 
best kinds, good increasers and free flowerers. ' Thora ' is of particular 
value under glass, as then its cup takes on a warm buff. White 
King ' is an ideal show bloom. It received an Award of Merit in 
1915. ' White Mere ' is a particularly refined flower and quite in the 
front rank for showing. It resembles the old Nelsoni type with its 
long narrow cup. The owner of the stock bought it because it was so 
much admired by the Rev. W. Wilks. 
One of the lovely white triandrus hybrids is ' Venetia/ These 
hybrids are obtained by crossing such a variety as ' Mrs. Langtry ' or 
■ Minnie Hume ' with triandrus calathinus. The old ' Queen of Spain ' 
is a natural hybrid, probably between triandrus and a yellow trumpet. 
Cyclamineus hybrids often have but short lives, and it is a real find 
to get one like ' Golden Arrow/ which has a constitution. Some very 
beautiful varieties have been raised by using the pollen of the .small 
sweet-scented Jonquil (Jonquilla simplex) with yellow trumpets and 
various other varieties as seed parents. ' Cicely ' is very remarkable 
and uncommon, as the flower is made up of two shades of apricot or 
deep buff. ' Flattery ' is a fine specimen of the more usual deep yellow 
type. ' Buttercup ' is the oldest one on the market and the best known. 
The scent of these hybrids is delicious. 
