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truss, and beauty. I consider it one of the 
best grown, if not the best, of its class. 
Lightbody's Fair Flora. — A new flower, 
very fine tube and paste, the ground colour 
rich, although a little feathery, the pip very 
flat. This is a very pleasing variety. 
Lightbody's Fair Maid. — Very fine tube 
and paste, ground colour rich dark crimson, 
sometimes a little pouricey, pip large, rather 
late, and hard to open. 
Ashworth's Regular. — Worthy of its 
name, as it is a very neat flower; the pip is 
round and flat, but small. 
Campbell's Eobert Burns. — Fine tube 
and paste, colour rich crimson, very regular, 
pip round and flat. This is a late flower, and 
very fine and distinct. 
Taylor's Glory has a good tube, paste 
fine but not circular, ground colour crimson, 
breaks through the edge, the pip stiff and 
round. This is a favourite flower; in my 
opinion it is much overrated. 
Selfs. 
Smith's Mrs. Smith. — P'ine tube and dense 
paste ; however, scarcely circular ; colour of 
a very rich plum, pips large, round, and flat, 
one of the finest Selfs grown, makes a splendid 
plant, and large truss. 
Nether-wood's Othello. — Fine tube and 
circular paste, colour very rich dark brownish 
crimson. This variety should be bloomed fn 
the shade, as the pips have a tendency to fold 
back. It makes a very handsome plant, and 
large truss. 
Berry's Lord Lee should be classed as an 
Alpine; the colour of a bright red; makes a 
very small plant. This variety is very early, 
and a free bloomer. 
Martin's Miss Martin. — This is a very 
pretty variety, of a light blue colour, a little 
shaded. 
Martin's Mayfield is of the same style as 
the above, the colour has a tint of pink in it. 
Martin's Eclipse is a fine dark Self of 
good habit, and large truss. This variety 
requires heat to open well, the pips being 
cupped. 
Kate's Jupiter has a fine tube, and dense 
fine paste, the colour of a rich dark plum, the 
pips round and flat. The stem of this variety 
is too short, scarcely showing the truss above 
the foliage, which gives it a stunted appear- 
ance, and detracts much from its beauty. 
Gorton's IStadthouder.— A yellow Self. 
It forms a pleasing contrast in a stage. The 
paste is too narrow, although round. 
Berry's Lord Primate. — A beautiful 
dark Self of a maroon colour, very perfect and 
neat ; its only fault is the small size of the pips. 
Barker's Nonsuch. — A very lino flower 
of a dark plum colour, with a slight shade ; 
pips circular and flat ; makes a handsome 
plant. 
Bradshaw's Listy. — A dark blue, makes 
a small plant, the stem too short. 
Redman's Metropolitan. — A dark blue 
Self. I think this variety and Gleg's Apollo 
the same. 
Whittaker's True Blue, as its name 
implies, is of a fine blue colour. The plant is 
of small habit, and the pips are hard to open, 
as they are apt to come what florists term 
cupped. Junior. 
PIMELIA INTERMEDIA. 
THE INTERMEDIATE PIMELIA. 
This is one of a very pretty family of green- 
house shrubs, almost all of which are, more or 
less, favourites among cultivators. 
Pimelia intermedia is a slender growing 
plant, with small twiggy branches, lance-shaped 
leaves, and heads of small white flowers ter- 
minating the little branches. It is, as all the 
other species are, of evergreen habit, and pro- 
duces its flowers during the months of May 
and June. It is a native of King George's 
Sound, and was introduced in 1825. 
The Pimelia is a plant requiring rather 
careful treatment to grow it to that perfec- 
tion in which many of them are produced at 
the metropolitan exhibitions. The chief points 
of attention are the following : — To place it in 
a light and well ventilated green-bouse in 
winter ami spring, and in a cool pit during 
summer, where it will make its growth after it 
