beauty. The greatest difficulty is to find out 
those sorts for seed that will breed good flow- 
ers ; for I am confident some sorts will breed 
much finer ones than others. There would be 
no great difficulty in making choice of four or 
five sorts ; take of each five or six plants or 
more, place them in separate parts ot the gar- 
den, at a distance of forty yards apart or more, 
that the hee and the air may not impregnate 
one with the other ; by this means you save 
your sorts distinct. When you sow the seed, 
number it as you do that of any other flowers, 
by this plan you will be able to ascertain by 
practise what sorts of named flowers breed 
the best. To raise a less number than one hun- 
dred seedlings of a sort would not be giving any 
one sort a fair trial. Should you be fortunate 
enough to raise but one out ot the number that 
excels, you then will be able to give your bro- 
ther florists the true pedigree of its breed. 
Another great advantage there will be in this 
system, after you have proved two or three 
sorts that have produced good flowers, you 
can cross the breed, by placing them out to- 
gether by the side of each other, for the pur- 
pose of improving the breed still further. 
I have been told by Mr, Cockup, that his 
Eclipse was raised at Edge ware, Middlesex^, 
