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renown for many years round London — and, 
in my opinion, as far as I could judge, it is 
ten to one before it in all respects ; the whole 
of the pips being very brilliant in their colour, 
even the middle pips have plenty of green 
edging, and the whole forms a superior truss 
of flowers ; and were I in possession of four or 
five strong healthy plants, I would engage to 
shew against any Cochup’s Eclipse in England, 
for fifty guineas : this flower is to be met with in 
the neighbourhood of Islington, it being raised 
there ; also at Mr. Franklin’s, who is a dealer in 
Auriculas and Carnations, and resides near the 
Shepherd and Shepherdess, City Road, Isling- 
ton ; it is at present new and scarce, and but 
little known, being in veiy few hands. I should 
not do justice to Mr. Hedges, Florist, Hamp- 
stead, Middlesex, were I to omit mentioning 
to the reader his fine seedling, called Hedges’ 
Britannia, a flower possessed of equally as fine 
properties, and as well calculated for prize 
shews as the former, but in quite a different 
stile — it is a truly rich and magnificent flower. 
Dyson’s Queen is a fine variety, and reasona- 
ble ; if a stock of this sort is kept, you would 
find it occasionally to answer well your expec- 
tations ; it is to be met with, as also any other 
