THE PANSY. 
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best. Many build a wall of turf round the 
wood-work, and nothing can be warmer, but 
in ordinary winters it is unnecessary, and all 
turves harbour vermin more or less. 
The Pansy was not only brought into notice 
by Mr. Thompson of Iver, but besides being 
successful himself, he sold many seedlings un- 
bloomed to Mountjoy, Brown, and others, who 
when they bloomed named them, as if they 
themselves had reared them, so that he may 
very fairly be said to be the father of the fancier, 
as well as the father of the fancy. 
PROPERTIES OF THE TANS1' OR HEARTSEASE. 
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First. — It should be round, flat, and very 
smooth at the edge, every notch, or serrature, 
or unevenness, being a blemish. 
Second. — The petals should be thick, and 
of a rich velvety texture. 
Third. — Whatever may be the colours, the 
ground colour of the three lower petals should 
be alike : whether it be white, yellow, straw 
colour, plain, fringed, or blotched, there should 
not in these three petals be a shade difference 
in the principal colour. 
Fourth. — Whatever may be the character 
of the marks or darker pencilling* on the 
ground colour, they should be bright, dense, 
distinct, and retain their character, without 
running or flushing, or mixing with the ground 
colour ; and the white, yellow, or straw colour 
should he pure. 
Fifth. — The two upper petals should be 
perfectly uniform, whether dark or light, or 
fringed, or blotched. The two petals im- 
mediately under them should be alike; and the 
lower petal, as before observed, must have the 
same ground colour and character as the two 
above it ; and the pencilling or marking of 
the eye in the three lower petals must not 
break through to the edges. 
Sixth. — In size there is a distinct point, 
when coarseness does not accompany it : in 
other words, if flowers are equal in other 
respects, the larger is the better ; but no flower 
should be shown under one inch and a half 
across. 
general remarks. 
Ragged edges, crumpled petals, indentures 
on the petal, indistinct markings or pencilling?, 
and flushed or run colours, are great blemishes; 
but if there be one ground colour to the lower 
petal and another colour to the side ones, or 
if there are two shades of ground colour at all, 
it is not a show flower, though many such are 
improperly tolerated — of course the yellow 
eye is not considered ground colour. In 
selecting new varieties, not one should be let 
out which has the last mentioned blemish, and 
nunc should be sold that do not very closely 
approach the circular form. 
