Nothing is liailed with more joy by all lovers of Floriculture than gradual and marked improve- 
ment in our Florists’ Flowers from year to year. Changes without attractiveness are of little or no 
value ; new colours and stout dwarf growth are qualities immediately sought for. We should be 
glad to hear from any amateurs or gardeners having new and improved varieties of plants enumerated 
in our Floral Guide ; they must he a decided advance on all existing kinds. 
Abu'tilons. 
grow them they only require the ordinary cultivation of the Fuchsia, and if placed in ii little 
lient early they will produce innumerable quantities of bell-shaped flowers, of beautiful and 
various colours ; opened out and the petals turned back in a reflex form, they are instantly 
transformed into another and distinct flower 2 inches across ; for baskets, vases, button-holes, and 
decorations, they are most valuable, particnlarly if a few Violets are threaded through the centre of 
the flowers. They continue to bloom in an ordinary greenhouse all the winter, and if on the 1st of 
May they are planted out, they will form the most continuous flowering shrubs until the frost 
comes, when they can he easily lifted or propagated by cuttings taken from the hard wood early ip 
September, and struck in a mild bottom heat. 
ABUTILON, DOUBLE FLOWERED. 
1. THOMPSONI FLORE PLENO— Habit and foliage the same as the old Thumpsoni, but 
producing very double flowers of a rich orange, veined crimson ; quite novel, and certainly the most 
useful of all this family ; for cut flowers a gem. Is. 
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