SELECT FLORISTS FLOWERS. 
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tonia). — This produces pale yellow flowers 
from May to July ; a foot and a half high. 
Tritonia viridis (green- flowered Tritonia). 
— The flowers of this are of a reddish green, 
blooming from May to July ; grows about a 
foot high. 
Tritonia xantkospila (yellow-spotted Tri- 
tonia). — This has white and yellow flowers, 
and blooms in June and July ; grows one 
foot high. 
THE BEST VARIETIES IN CULTIVATION OF 
TWENTY-ONE SORTS OF FLOWERS. 
Periodically it is necessary to give amateur 
florists an idea of the best subjects to cultivate, 
because when new and improved varieties ap- 
pear, they must turn out inferior ones from 
all limited collections ; and there are many 
persons who grow so few that it is of the 
highest importance to be informed now and 
then of those that keep the lead, that collec- 
tions may be corrected by the addition of 
novelties that are actually better, or different 
from, and as good as those in cultivation 
already. We are aware that there are other 
sources from which lists can be taken, but 
those which can be depended on are too large 
for small growers ; others only mislead them. 
It may be said there are other flowers 
as good as we name, but suppose there be 
some as good, and they are not better, our 
list cannot mislead ; for instance, in mention- 
ing a dozen of any thing of which there are 
hundreds, when we come towards the last, down 
to the quality of which there may be many 
equally good or bad, we can only take the 
number we want, and in such case we are 
guided by the colour or character we require 
to form the best small collection. These lists 
will be found useful to young beginners, be- 
cause it is most essential to begin with the 
best, and it is well known that young flor- 
ists have always been the dupes of the older 
and more cunning ones. 
It has been a general feeling among old 
florists, that inferior soi*ts, such as they began 
with, are good enough for beginners now ; 
but our notion is, that the young man who 
never grew a thing before ought to begin 
with the best ; and not waste his money in a 
single flower that is of second-rate character, 
while he can get enough of the first. Those 
who are growing such subjects, or any one of 
them, may consult the lists with advantage; for, 
if they find any among those named that they 
do not already cultivate, they ought to lose no 
time in procuring them. The following may 
be considered the best that can be selected of 
each tribe of flowers up to the present time. 
Some flowers stand their ground well, and 
others exhibit great changes from the rapid 
improvements that are made every season. 
Dahlias. — Berryer, Scarlet Gem, Yellow 
Standard, Standard of Perfection, Queen of 
Roses, Queen of Sheba, Marchioness Corn- 
wallis, Princess Radziville, Gem, Shylock, 
Walter Hilson, Delight. 
Carnations. — Colcut's Brutus, Martin's 
Splendid, Mansley's Robert Burns, Ely's Lord 
Milton, Mansley's Beauty of Woodhouse, 
Norman's Duke of Wellington, Brookes's 
Flora's Garland, Wood's Rosabelle, Twitchet's 
Don John, Taylor's Lord Byron, Ward's 
Sarah Payne, Newhall's Memento. 
Picotees. — Wildman's Isabella, Sharp's 
Countess de Grey, Edmund's Jenny Lind, 
Headley's King James, Headley's Venus, 
Burroughs's Emma, Read's Antagonist, Mat-- 
thews's Enchantress, Sharp's 1' Elegant, 
Crask's Queen Victoria, Barnard's Mrs. Bar- 
nard, Garrett's Lady Dacre, Matthews's 
Eclipse. 
Pinks. — Bragg's George Glenny, Hale's 
Queen of England, Turner's Masterpiece, 
Turner's XX, Norman's X.Y.Z., Wilmer's 
Laura, Fairbairn's Bob Lawrence, Church's 
Rowena, Turner's Beauty, Ward's Great 
Britain, Norman's Heniy Steers, Garrett's 
Queen of Roses. 
Verbenas. — Beauty of Bracondale, Scar- 
let Defiance, European, Lilac Rival, Fairy, 
Lady of the Lake, St. Margaret's, Vixen, 
Queen of Roses, Attraction, Lord John 
Russell, Elvira. 
Hyacinths. — Waterloo, Groot Voorst, 
Grand Vainqueur, Alamode (double white), 
Alamode (double blue), Due de Normandy, 
Vulcan, Orondates, Lord Wellington, Pas- 
quin, Voltaire, Bouquet d'Orange. 
Auriculas. — Page's Champion, Lee's Col. 
Taylor, Booth's Freedom, Lightbocly's Lord 
Lynedoch, Dickson's Matilda, Dickson's Prince 
Albert, Fletcher's Ne Plus Ultra, Dickson's 
Unique, Waterhouse's Conqueror of Europe, 
Oliver's Lovely Anne, Grimes's Privateer, 
Taylor's Glory, Thorpe's Magpie. 
Fuchsias. — One in the Ring, Newberry's 
Delicata, Elphinst one's Ne Plus Ultra, Ken- 
dal's Elizabeth, Smith's Ne Plus Ultra, For- 
mosa Elegans, Turvill's Fountain, Ludovico, 
Beauty of Chelmsford, Globosa Carnea, Lo- 
ganii, Splendida. 
Polyanthuses. — Errington's Fire King, 
Craiggy's Tartarian, Britannia, Bertram, 
Highland Mary, Cox's Regent, Bang Europe, 
Buonaparte, Black and Gold, Beauty of Eng- 
land, Alexander, Bucephalus. 
Pansies. — Zabdi, Cossack, Constellation, 
Achilles, Othello, Example, Model of Perfec- 
tion, Mrs. M. Hamilton, Rouelle's Supreme, 
Hore's Superb, Lord Hardinge, Prince of 
Orange, Cypress, Mary, Blue Fringe, Falkirk 
