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GLENNY ON THE CALCEOLARIA. 
Stripes ; which last is a singular strain, entirely 
run away from all the others. 
THE PROPERTIES OP THE CALCEOLARIA. 
The plant should be shrubby ; the habit 
bushy; the wood strong ; the foliage thick and 
dark green. 
The flower-stem should be short and strong; 
and the footstalks of the blooms elastic, and 
branching well away from each other, to form 
a rich mass of flowers, without crowding. 
The individual flower depends entirely on 
the form of the purse ; it should be a perfect 
round hollow ball ; the orifice and calyx can- 
not be too small, nor the flower too large. 
The colour should be very dense ; whether 
the marking be a spot in the middle, or stripes, 
or blotches, it should be well defined ; the 
ground should be all one colour, whether 
white, straw, sulphur, yellow, or any other 
colour. 
The colour of a self should be brilliant, and 
all over of the same actual shade ; dark flowers 
with pale edges, or clouded and indefinite 
colours, are bad and unfit for show. 
The bloom should form one handsome 
bunch of pendent flowers, commencing where 
the foliage leaves off ; the flower- stems should 
not be seen between the foliage and the flowers, 
which latter should hang gracefully, and be 
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close to each other ; the brandies of the 
flower-stems holding them so as to form a 
handsome spreading surface. 
We cannot well give the properties of this 
flower without acknowledging that Mr. Green 
has written on the same subject. We are not 
surprised that we differ from him upon the 
most essential points. This comes of our 
wanting flowers better than they have been 
yet produced ; and of growers taking their 
own best for a model, and making, or rather 
endeavouring to make them patterns for all 
future growers. There is no good reason why 
the Calceolaria should not be as round as a 
cherry. The error which most people fall into 
in settling the points of a florist's flower is, 
that they are guided by what has been done, 
instead of what would look the most hand- 
some if it could be accomplished. 
MR. GREEN'S PROPERTIES. 
The properties which constitute perfection 
in the Calceolaria, consist in the lip forming a 
perfect circle, even round the edges, not flat, 
but raised in the centre, presenting a bold 
convex surface. 
In all cases the colours should be clear and 
! distinct, with the dark markings having a rich 
I velvety appearance; the petals and calyx ought 
! to be large and full, with the flower-stems 
J short and strong. 
The shrubby kinds are much the best ; the 
flowers are quite as large and as beautiful as 
the herbaceous sorts ; and they are much easier 
of cultivation. 
