yf. *€anne/{ hfon6’ of 7fio{et6. 
59 
VIOLETS. 
TF tliero is one flowor moro than another that can lay claim to the honour of hein- everybody’s 
Y favonrite, it is the Violet; it cheers the most saddened spirits, and gladdens the most robust. 
We are plea.scd to say the hyhridisers and the most anxious and hopeful seedling raisers are at 
work, and to those who present flowers double the size of our present kinds with a perfume, the 
whole universe owe at least their thanks. Violets, like all other flowers, have their wants, and 
if these wants are not supplied at the right time they become weak and unsatisfactory. Old 
plants must be divided early in April, and replanted in good deeply-dug and well-manured soil, sixteen 
inches from plant to plant for largo growers; the double and smaller-leaved kinds, twelve inches, 
with their roots well down so as not to sull'er in dry weather, and at all seasons their runners must be 
cut olf ; they will then produce flowers such as are seldom seen. 
DOUBLE VITHITE VIOLETS. 
BELLE DE CHATENAY — Pure white ; largo and fragrant. eacli ; S.-?. per doz. 
SWANLBY WHITE, syn. COMTE BRAZZA— A beautiful and useful white form of Neapolitan, fr.aerant, liardv 
and free ; much grown in America, to where we have exported it largely, ^d. each ; Os. per doz. ^ 
NEW DOUBLE VIOLETS. 
MRS ARTHUR-Darker bluer and more useful in every way than Marie Louise, and probably the best double 
Violet ever olfcrcd. 9rf. each ; 6s. per doz. 
MRS. D’ARCY— Pale clear mauve ; a good grower and (luite distinct. Pd. each ; 6s. per doz. 
DOUBLE VARIETIES. 
DE PARME— Pale lavender-purple flowers produced in great abundance ; earlier than Neapolitan. The finest 
variety for growing in frames ; very free. 
KING OF VIOLETS— Dark indigo-blue ; very large double flowers ; best outdoors. 
LADY H CAMPBELL Only wants to be once seen and it will be universally grown as a late kind. 
MARIE LOUISE Fine variety ; rich mauve-lavender blue, with a white e\'e ; flowers large, and one of the best ■ a 
universal tavourite. 
MDLLE. BERTHA BARRON, syn. VICTORIA — A fine, vigorous, compact grower ; flowers freely produced, 
strongly scented, and of a beautiful indigo-blue. each. 
MRS. J. J. ASTOR - Of a pretty shade of pink, very free ; distinct. 9c2. each. 
NEAPOLITAN Lavender, with a white eye, flowers produced in groat abundance, very fragrant : in a cold frame a 
gem all the winter, 
NEW YORK Mauve-coloured, for size and length of footstalks similar to Matic Louise ; very fragrant and free. 
All those not priced 6rf. each, 4s. per doz. from ground; in 5-in. pots, 6s. and 8s. per doz. 
Special prices for large quantities. 
Rooted little plants, 2s. per doz., 15s. per 100. Cuttings, 9c2. per doz., 5s. per 100 
