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VC 17 roond pip, fine eye, and all other good 
properties you have a right to expect. It must 
have been greatly admired, as appears from an 
old catalogue, as it came out at one guinea and 
a half per plant. This plant in particular, as 
well as many others, have been greatly neg- 
lected — the cause I know not, except from 
its being rather a delicate grower ; but if your 
compost is rich and well prepared, it will flou- 
rish as well as any other : I strongly recom- 
mend it to raise seedlings from, on account of 
its very fine brilliant crimson colour : fine 
ground colours in this way are greatly want- 
ed in a select collection, and are equally as 
valuable and scarce as the fine violet grounds 
which I have recommended to be raised from 
Foden’s Victory. By no means place these 
two last sorts by the side of each other, or with 
or near to any other sort whatever, as by so 
doing you would cross the breed, and, in my 
opinion, would be defeated in your attempt 
to raise these two ground colours distinct. I 
beg the favor also of giving you one more hint, 
that greater attention ought to be paid to that 
fine old sort, which likewise has been neglected, 
it is called Keynoii’s Free Briton; the character 
of that, as also, Foden’s Fair Rosamond, is well 
known to Phineas Borritt, Esq. who is account?- 
