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DESCRIPTIVE FLOWER, LISTS. THE TULIP. 
shool : and if one bud out of two starts stronger 
than the other, it should be selected for growth. 
The Btock may be selected of a good sort, that 
il may itself form oue of the varieties, and it 
should be quite as strong a kind as any; but 
the flowers ought also to be of a size. Red 
Snipe, Double White, King, Sweetii, Chand- 
lerii, and such like, are pretty equal in 
growth, and would do very well; and the stock 
might be Donkellarii, leaving whatever part of 
it is to grow close to the bottom. With Azaleas, 
liuliea, Alba, or Danielsiana, win 1 be found the 
best for stocks, as they are stiff free growers, 
while almost all the others are pendulous in a 
great degree. The most effective mode of ap- 
plying the scions is as a head to a standard, 
for they will all hang gracefully, and when in 
bloom be very beautiful. 
Among Geraniums, any strong grower will 
do, and the kinds to be grafted should be se- 
lected, so as to grow about the same strength. 
Nothing takes so freely as the Geranium, nor 
does it much matter what time of the year it 
is grafted, so that it be growing. With regard 
to budding of Roses, it is almost unnecessary 
to say, that moderately slow growers will make 
the best and most handsome heads, because 
they are, for the most part, bushy, and always 
prolific of their bloom ; the contrast of colours 
hardly goes further than white, yellow, light 
pink, dark pink, and crimson ; these ought to 
be of a size and of a kind. The Chinas are 
very beautiful, but will not long stand the hard 
weather on grafts, although they will some- 
times outlive a frost in the ground. The 
grafting of almost anything is to be effected 
by mere neatness and attention, and a sharp 
knife. The Brugmansia suaveolens, or Da- 
tura arborea, makes a good stock for Lutea 
bicolor, and sanguinea. The Acacias graft 
freely, and as the forms of their blooms are 
various, they make a very curious subject, but 
almost anything that has among its family 
diversity of colour in the bloom, may be made 
very interesting by this operation. The 
Rhododendron is easily grafted ; and as there 
are all the shades of the Rose, from a blush 
white to crimson, and all the shades of purple, 
from a tinged white, down to the deep atro- 
purpurea ; and moreover, as there are pure 
white, and bright yellow, some of the colours 
might be selected, and a very interesting 
object made. As these operations show the 
skill and taste of the gardener, there can be 
no impropriety in giving prizes for grafted 
and budded plants; but we object to their intro- 
duction in limited collections, and they would 
altogether disqualify any collection that con- 
tained them, because they cannot be called 
distinct varieties ; and if there be any advan- 
tage as to effect, it is unfair towards others. 
The best plants to graft or bud, the best con- 
t past of colours, the best form of training, are 
all fair subjects for the exercise of taste and 
judgment, and the amateur gardener will (ind 
abundant field for the exercise of his genius. 
DESCRIPTIVE FLOWER LISTS. 
THE LEADING VARIETIES OF GOOD AND USEFUL 
TULIPS. 
In submitting an article of this kind to 
readers, many of whom are already familiar 
with the great majority of the Tulips at pre- 
sent grown, it may appear somewhat presump- 
tuous ; yet, upon consideration, we have con- 
quered our scruples, for we have been in many 
localities where particular varieties prevail, 
while others, which would be greatly admired, 
if known, are altogether absent from these col- 
lections. On the other hand, we have found 
some of the most unpretending florists in 
different parts of the country growing very 
fine flowers without holding them in any par- 
ticular esteem. The small number in our 
Descriptive Catalogue as compared with the 
great variety contained in the Trade Cata- 
logues, may be attributed to various causes ; 
but the principal are, first, a wish on our part 
to omit those which it can do nobody any 
credit to grow ; and, secondly, to our limiting 
each variety to one name. To show the 
necessity of this, we may mention the fine old 
bizard, Captain White, a flower which bears, 
not only in different places, many different 
names, but which, in the very same catalogue, 
bears half-a-dozen names and several different 
prices. Sanzoe, Captain Black, Admiral Black, 
Strong's Captain White, and so on, under one 
name ten shillings, and under another, only 
five. Then, again, we have the fine old by- 
blomen, Roi de Siam, in one and the same 
catalogue ; Siam, ten shillings, and the same 
flower, under the name of Acapulco, twenty 
shillings. Then nobody knows how many 
