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DESCRIPTIVE FLOWER LISTS. — THE TULIP 
sometimes a bright yellow and dark markings, 
but the outside always dull, and a struggle 
between a dirty while and a straw colour ; and 
tlic markings no1 half defined, even when the 
inside is tolerable. We baveseen the inside of 
the flower a good, though not a brilliant yel- 
low, but the outside never bright. It is, how- 
ever, a hold middle row variety, which will 
alwavs he useful, though it seems to be more 
deserving the name of a tricolor than a bizard. 
Leonatus Posthumus. — Mr. Kutley broke, 
fromMr.Clarke's breeders, a number of flowers 
very distinct from each other, so far as fanciers 
were able instantly to judge at sight ; but, 
nevertheless, partaking very much of one 
character. The breeders were, however, 
disseminated a good deal, and others broke 
many of the same flowers. Leonatus Posthu- 
mus was one of these, original, but not splendid; 
curious, but not beautiful ; nevertheless, the 
flower bore a price. It has almost always a 
flame without feather, a brown and yellow, 
with nothing strikingly good to recommend 
it ; its chief merit being that of differing in 
colour and character from all the old bizards. 
It grows, according to the size of the root, in 
the first, second, or third row, is quite clean, 
but of no great merit as to form. 
Solon. — A first, or, at the most, second- 
row bizard, of better form than the preceding. 
A showy bizard, with good yellow, and very 
often highly uniform marking. Frequently 
flame without much feather ; sometimes with- 
out any. It makes a striking flower in the 
first row, because the flower is large in pro- 
portion to the height. The yellow is palish, 
but very pretty and bright ; and it should be 
in every bed. 
Carlo DolcL — A tricolored flower, broken 
by everybody, and with everybody a different 
name. It rarely expands well, the edge of 
each petal turning inwards, so as to form by 
every petal a sort of boat or spoon-bowl. In 
very hot melting weather it opens a little, but 
the turn-over edge prevents it from forming a 
good compact cup. The colours are in general 
showy, but the outside so much duller than 
the inside, as to take off" a good deal from its 
merit. Indeed, tricolored flowers, unless very 
striking as bed-flowers, are not worth much 
trouble, for they cannot be shown unless a 
class is made for them. It is a second-row 
flower. 
Duke of Devonsldre. — A bizard of the 
best character, broken by Mr. Dixon, of Acre- 
lane, Brixton. It is of a brilliant yellow, 
with very black markings. The colour out- 
side very far above the average of the bright- 
est exteriors. It is a middle-row variety, very 
striking and beautiful in a bed, and worthy of 
a place among the finest varieties in cultiva- 
tion. It is, at present, a dear and scarce 
flower, and must be in demand for a long 
time yet at good prices. The only safe way 
to get it at present, that we know of, is of the 
raiser ; for among the dealers there is a great 
disposition to say it is this, that, or the other 
flower ; and to justify what they say by giving 
what they say it is, instead of the true flower. 
The raiser will not, for his own sake, do 
wrong by it ; and it is quite impossible to 
mistake it when you see the right one. When 
full-blown it is well up among the tallest in 
the middle row. 
Hose Emily is a showy, clean, middle-row 
flower, of tolerably certain character; always 
pretty, sometimes very fine. It is one of the 
varieties broken from Clarke's breeders, with 
a tolerably thick petal, clear white, and fre- 
quently well-defined marking. As a bed- 
flow r er it is highly useful, and ought never to 
be absent. It is not plentiful, and therefore 
is pretty much up in price. Smaller roots do 
for the third row, but it should never be had 
in the second, for it will run up. 
Mosa lilanca. — A very singular difference 
may be seen in two strains of this beautiful 
flower ; one is beautifully and regularly fea- 
thered, and without any flame ; the other is 
richly feathered and flamed, and is desirable 
in both states. It has been said these are two 
different kinds, but the sport we have men- 
tioned is the same flower in two different cha- 
racters ; and anybody who grows the feathered 
kind will find in time that they will obtain the 
other, though the feathered and flamed kind 
never, to our knowledge, came back to the 
lighter character. The form of the flower is 
pretty, and it is a showy subject in a bed. 
There are two objections made to it by some 
persons, but it will be always grown in spite 
of them : first, it blooms too early for the rest 
of the bed ; and second, after it has been out 
some days, its beautiful rose colour goes off to 
a light purple, and so distinct, as to enable a 
stranger to pronounce one a byblomen, the 
other a rose. It is a good third, and occa- 
sionally used as a fourth-row flower, but is very 
apt to split and form two roots instead of blow r - 
ing; on which account many use two bulbs in 
the same hole. 
Madame Vestris. — This, in its best state, 
that of a feather only, is one of the most rich 
and beautiful roses we have ; but it more fre- 
quently comes full of flame and feather, in 
which state the colours are not so bright. It 
is a useful show variety ; very pure, very dis- 
tinct from all others, and an excellent marker 
for the country shows. When it comes with 
feather only, it seems as if the same quantity 
of colour that would be used for all the flame 
and feather were concentrated in the feather 
only, it is so dense and rich. In this state it 
was called Princess Sophia of Gloucester; but 
