i^loral Gfuide. 
Exhibition 
lA HLIAS. 
Sfi^iT sliould be distinctly understood that we grow above 1,000 plants to the greatest perfection ; in 
STS fact, they fom iinite a grand feature in our nursery, and the following list is unquestionably the 
most complete ever issued. 
When these arc well grown they are 
■one of the noblest and most boautifnlly 
made llowcrs in cultivation, but to 
grow them well they must have an 
anxious and industrious master, for 
their wants are craving from June to 
September. They require a good deep 
soil, well trenched, and full of manure. 
Obtain about the end of April wiry 
.small-.stemmed plants, shift them at 
■once into 6-inch pots, keej) them in a 
frame with the lights only kept on at 
night ; plant them out the fir.st warm 
nights in June, well staked as they 
grow, and the ground covered with 
four inidies of stable manure, watering 
them overhead every day, or oftener if 
the weather be very dry, and thinning 
the lateral shoots cut in the case of 
nnodium-sized flowers, with large flowers 
less, supplyiirg the plants when making 
their flower buds with a soaking of 
liquid manure during the season, besides 
washing them overhead every night to 
keep thrips from the flowers. These 
directions are for show purposes, and 
the following varieties are most con- 
stant, finest for e.xhibitien, and also 
make . a fine display in .shrubbery 
borders. 
BEST SHOW VARIETIES. 
^d.l. Flowers with ground colours lighter than that of the tips arc show kinds and arc included with 
the .self-colours in this class. 
1. ADMIRATION— Yellow ground, edged 
and mottled lake, very pleasing 
2. ALEXANDER CRAMOND — Shaded 
maroon, a most striking flower, veiy large, always 
ready, grand. Is. each 
3. ADELAIDE— Clear yellow, fine high 
centre, large constant flower 
4. AMY ROBSART — Lilac, a constant full- 
tdzed flower of good form 
5. AURORA— Golden bull', distinct new 
colour, of good form 
6. ANNIE GIBBONS — Primrose, shading 
oil' to a fauTi colour, good form. Is. each 
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7. ANNIE NEVILLE— White. Is. each 
8. BENJAMIN CROSSLAND— liicli dark 
purple, very extra flower 
0. BURGUNDY— Bich dark puce, suH’iised 
with purple-maroon. Is. each 
10. BARONESS BURDETT COUTTS— 
Pure yellow, large 
I 11. CHAMPION ROLLO — Largo dark 
I orange, with a lighter shade on tho edge of the. 
petals, a fine bold flower. Is. each 
13. CRITERION— Delicate rose, a large fine 
back tier flower 
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