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edge, fine texture, good substance, excellent 
outline ; size rather below average : rather 
beaten in most points by Hamlet, but often in 
flower when the other is not: both are not 
good in one stand. 
Mart Jane, (Hooper's.) — Pale yellow 
ground, light blue narrow border, smooth 
edge, fair outline, dark eye, moderate sub- 
stance : size rather below than above average. 
Arethusa, (Brown's.) — Fine white ground 
flower, with light purple marking, broad belt 
or margin, blotched eyes, smooth edge, good 
substance, fine texture, fair outline : a size 
rather above the average. 
Hannibal, (Brown's.) — Pale yellow ground, 
broad mulberry band, large eye radiating, 
edge inclined to be smooth, fairish outline, 
good substance ; size above the average : occa- 
sionally, the radiations of the eye will break 
through to the band. 
Cueion, (Brown's.) — Fine white ground 
flower, with deep blue edges, fair outline, 
pretty good, substance, fine pencilled eye, 
tolerably smooth edge : average size. 
Black Prince, (Pearson's.) — Grown for 
its colour only, which is very dark, and there- 
fore desirable, if it could be transferred to a 
better formed flower. 
Black Bess, (Cook's.) — Dark purple self 
of good substance, small yellow eye, fair out- 
line, fine texture, average size, smooth edge. 
Cyclops, (Thompson's.) — Straw-coloured 
ground, purple border, blotched eye, smooth 
edge, good substance, middling outline, aver- 
age size or rather under; very brilliant flower. 
Diamond, (Hall's, otherwise Hales.) — 
Dark seedling : a dark purple self of good 
texture, smooth edge, fairish outline, yellow 
eye, plenty of substance, and full average 
size, or perhaps rather above. 
Duchess op Beaufort, (King's.) — Three 
lower petals, straw-colour, upper ones purple; 
very distinct variety, but not a fine shape ; 
edge moderately good, but the outline defi- 
cient. 
Exquisite, (King's.) — Fine white ground 
with narrow edging, small blotched eye, fair 
substance, middling smooth edge, and good 
outline ; full average size. 
Eclipsk. — Fine brown purple top petals, 
and bands to the lower ones. There is a 
trifling shade of difference between the side 
petals and the lower one, but when the 
flower conies in perfection this is hardly seen ; 
substance good, edge smooth, size full average. 
JEHU, (Thompson's.) — Purple upper petals, 
three lower ones yellow, rather under than 
over average size, smooth edge, large radiat- 
ing eye, good substance, and tolerably good 
outline. 
Venus, (Thompson's.) — An uncertain 
flower, but at times very beautiful ; pure 
white ground with very slight edging of 
bright violet on the upper petals ; very rich 
eye, above the average size and form ; and a 
pretty flower on a stand. 
North-star, (Bragg's.) — A showy flower, 
but the ground which should be wjiite does 
not always bleach ; the back petals and eye are 
purple, and the texture velvety and rich, and 
the form better than average. 
Conservative. — Back petals dark blue, 
lower petals lighter, with fine black eye ; but 
the general appearance is cloudy and unde- 
fined. 
Mulberry Superb, (Hamlet,) is much such 
a flower as already described. It is more of a 
chocolate colour than any thing else, but in 
form, texture, and flatness it is among the 
best of the selfs ; the centre of the flower is 
I lighter than the outer portions, and it shows 
I a good dark eye. 
Bridegroom, (Major's.) — Rich purple back 
| petals, and deep edging of the same round the 
lower petals. The texture and substance are 
good, but there is a want of distinctness oc- 
casionally. It is, however, an improvement 
on Coronation, which is still grown. 
Miss Nugent. — -A flower of good texture ; 
average form, rich mulberry colour on a white 
ground. The eye is what some call poor, but 
it is a very useful flower when grown well, 
though uncertain. 
Coronation. — Rich purple upper petals 
deep uneven border of the same colour ; on 
the lower ones not enough white to make 
a good flower. The radiation of the eye often 
breaks into the border, and it is rougher in 
most cases than we like. 
MONTHLY OBSERVATIONS AND MANAGEMENT. 
January. — This month, if proper atten 
tion has been paid, you have in your frames 
a number of small plants of your better kinds, 
in thumb-pots or small sixty-sized pots, ready 
to plant out, or to pot into larger-sized ones, 
for blooming. You will also have your beds 
doing well with the plants put out in the two 
seasons of autumn, October and November ; 
the beds having been protected of a night 
with loose litter, which has been removed 
when the weather was mild. Not that ordi- 
nary kinds need even this ; but they are 
always better for it and certain. You will 
likewise have in your frames a collection 
of the better varieties in large pots, in which 
they have been since autumn and are now 
growing into strength. Cuttings also, per- 
haps not yet potted off", may be in pots, in 
pans, or under hand-glasses in the open-air ; 
these, if well struck and beginning to grow, 
may be bedded out in mild weather, or pot- 
ted off into thumb-pots or sixties ; but it 
bedded out, you must be more careful to 
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