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AMERICAN NEW VARIETIES. 
CAPTAIN TORRENS — A line globular .lapaiiesc ttower with massive jietals, which are rather 
broad mul slightly incurving at the tips ; colour deep golden yellow, outer florets shaded crimson- 
bronze. Crown bud. I’lants, 7s. Hd. 
CHARLES A. JESSUP — Incurved .lapancse, with florets of medium breadth, but long and 
closely incurving, forming a really grand globular flower for show purposes. 'I'he colour is a rich 
golden yellow. Crown bud. Plants, os 
DESDEMONA — A graceful variety of the refle.vcd Japanese type ; the florets are rather narrow 
and drooping, and the blooms are full and very double ; colour rosy-pink, with paler centre. 
Plants, os. 
DR. CONAN DOYLE— An effective globular Japanese of good form, with medium-sized 
florets, which are stiff and erect ; a good show flower, of a pretty, soft, bright pink colour. Crown 
bud. I’lants, os. 
DUCHESS OP WELLINGTON — Very long drooping florets outside, with inner ones incurving 
in a bold heavy manner, making the blooms build up to a great size : the florets are twisted, curly, 
and deeply grooved, and of medium breadth ; the colour is pure golden-yellow throughout, and a 
more effective and striking variety for the show board can hardly be found in the Japanese incurved 
class; rather dwarf. Crown bud. Plants, 7s. Grf. 
FRED. WATERTON — A fine bold Japanese incurved flower, with deeply grooved florets t)f 
good breadth, which are twisted and curly. A massive and worthy <’ompanion to such a flower as 
Uiiu/e d’Or. except in colour, which is of a soft pale shade of lilac-pink ; medium height. Crown 
bud. Plants, .5s. 
PREELING J. LAWRENCE — Although a Japanese, this may be described as a most exce|i- 
tioual flower, for unlike all other Chrysanthemums its higher tone of colour appears on the outside 
of the florets. The petals are of medium width, grooved, and sharply pointed at the tips, some of 
them turning over at the edge show the two colours in striking contrast. Inside of the florets is pale 
silvery pink, with a reverse of bright violet-amaranth paling oft with age. Plants, os. 
GEO. COLVILLE — A very round-hhaped flower. The petals are incurved, making up a solid 
flue bloom, with fimbriated tips ; the colour is deep rose with a reverse of silver. I’lants, 5s. 
GOLDEN WREATH — \ rather loosely formed Japanese, with long, curly, twisted, and inter- 
mingling florets, waich are flat and pointed • colour bright golden-yellow. Crown bud. Plants, 5s. 
H. HAMMOND SPENCER — A large semi-spherical Japanese, w ith long flat petals of medium 
width ; colour light pale blush with centre suflused pale yellow. Plants, 5s. 
J. AGATE — A grand incurved Japanese variety, very large, and jierfect in shape, petals long, 
very thick, and beautifully incurving; in colour there is nothing approaching such purity of 
whiteness. Crown or terminal hud. Plants, 7s. (id. 
lAGO — Rather broad incurving florets: a tine massive Ja|)anese bloom: colour deep golden 
yellow, slightly tinted crimson on the inside of the florets. Crown bud. Plants, os. 
JAMES LAMONT — An inciirveil .lapanese. as round as a ball ; colour dec|) rosy-aniarantb, 
lighter towards the centre; the petals are compactly arranged, and rather flat. J’lants, 5.v. 
J. H. RUNCHMAN — A globulai- Japanese, with very comi)act interlacing florets, large solid 
blooms ; colour a tine shade of rich golden-yellow, slightly tinted lemon-yellow. Crown bud. 
Plants, 7s. (id. 
J. H. WITTY — A very tine semi-globular full Japanese flower, with sharp pointed florets of 
medium width. It is big and .solid, with long outer florets that shorten towards the centre ; deep 
primrose-yellow, shading off to sulphur ; a choice acquisition. Plants, 5.1. 
J. W. MOORMAN — The most perfectly incurved Japanese in cultivation, baviim its florets 
most regularly arranged. The blooms are large, of good substance, and wonderfully solid, are stiff 
and stout with linely incurving tips ; a lovely shade ot creamy-white. Plants, 7s. (id, 
JOYCE A. POSTER— A Japanese having flat stiff florets, a medium-sized bloom ; colour deep 
rose, tinted mauve, with a pale shade of yellow suffusing the centre ; dwarf. Crown bud. 
Plants, 5s. 
JULIAN HILLPERT— .V ma.ssive Japanese, with very long tubulated and semi-tubulated 
florets. The colour is a delicate shade of creamy ]>rimrose, and tlie bloom is wide and spreading. 
Plants, 5s. 
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