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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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and free from small spots of colour or minute bars or elongated spots 
and the margin, whether light, medium, or heavy, of one shade only. 
New Varieties. 
Boadicea (Thomson).—Heavy purple edge. A very good flower, of 
medium size, with broad petal, and clear ground colour. 
Dr. Huxley (Thomson).—Medium rose edge. A refined flower of 
excellent form. 
Esther (Geggie).—Light purple edge, good size, broad petal, clear 
white ground, with bright edging. One of the best of its class. 
Heroine (Sharp).—A heavy bright cherry rose edge, very distinct in 
colour. A handsome flower, with pure white ground colour. 
Lady Alfrida. —A Clara Penson style of flower but finer, with an 
excellent petal, pure ground colour, and bright wire edging. 
Lady Gordon Cathcart (Turner).—A light red edge, pure in the 
ground colour, fine broad petals, and of good substance. 
Lady Emily Van de Weyer (Turner).—Light rose edge, with very 
broad smooth petal well continued to the crown, good size and of fine 
form. 
Miriam (Bacon).—Medium, purple edge. A splendid flower, clear 
white with fine broad petals of good substance. 
Miss Laliin (Lakin).—Light purple edge, the white pure, of fine 
form. 
Mrs. Beal (Beal).—Medium rose edge, a very beautiful flower, 
excellent petal with clear white ground. An improvement 
on Fellowes’ Ethel, good grower. 
Mrs, Burnetts (Chaundy).—Medium, rose edging in¬ 
clining to heavy. A large flower and of fine quality. 
Mrs. Openshaw (Geggie).—Heavy purple edge, fine 
broad petal, clear lustrous white ground with bright edging. 
A flower which gives a promise of a high position in its 
class. 
Madeline. —Eose edged, very fine broad petal and good 
form, but rather thin as seen about Birmingham. 
Me Plus Ultra (Lakin).—Pure white ground colour 
with a very heavy red edge, fine form, good substance, 
the darkest heavy red edge. An extra fine flower. 
Polly Brazil. —A splendid flower, pure white with 
bright heavy purple edge. One of the best in class. 
Pride of Ley\on (Headlands).—Light distinct purple 
edge ; a flower of good size, broad petal, and lustrous clear 
white ground colour. 
Rosie Sydenham (Sharp).—Pure ground colour, with a 
superb broad petal of great substance, and a flower of 
very fine quality ; medium light rose edge. 
Souvenir de Headland (Headland).—Light rose edge ; 
a large bloom, clear white ground colour, but a feather 
edge flower. 
Scarlet Queen (Sharp).—This charming flower is best 
described as a bright scarlet edge Mrs. Sharp, but un¬ 
fortunately the stock is very limited at present. 
Mrs. Herbert (Thomson).—This variety has maintained 
its character for refinement ; a beautiful flower, but not 
large. 
Other new sorts which I have not seen are being sent 
out by Mr. Dodwell, who speaks highly of Mrs. Lovatt 
especially, by Mr. George Chaundy and others. Informa¬ 
tion regarding these can be found in their catalogues. 
Crayon d'Or. —A distinct flower, primrose, distinctly lined with 
pale scarlet, and remarkable for its strong clove perfume. 
Elmis. —Pale primrose barred with lilac and orange. A very dis¬ 
tinct flower of good quality. 
Fri drich Wagner (Benary),—Lemon, barred with light brownish 
lilac. A distinct fine flower. M?, 
Fanny Trommsdorff. —Blush tinted, white ground, striped halfjway 
down the petal with lilac purple. A grand bloom with fine petals. 
F. A. Haage (Benary).—A very novel flower, creamy buff ground 
distinctly flaked with carmine and slate and of good form. 
Golden Bain (Douglas).—A large full flower of excellent form, buff 
ground colour suffused with bright red. Very distinct and pleasing. 
Lohengrin (Benary).—Primrose, barred with rosy carmine. Aifinq 
flower of good quality and large size. 
Yellow Ground and Fancy Varieties. 
What a wonderful improvement in these during the 
last few years. Mr. James Douglas has introduced many 
fine varieties of his own raising, and Mr. Dodwell has 
also contributed a large number, and other English 
raisers are at work. Then Mr. Benary, and other eminent 
German florists, have been devoting much attention to the Carnation, 
and have introduced varieties of sterling merit and distinctness, and 
these glorious fancy varieties are becoming very popular. In the 
“ Florists’Guide ” for 1827-1829 there is a coloured plate of what in 
those days must have been a fine yellow-ground fancy variety named 
Erasmus, and it is described as having been previously imported from 
Germany by the celebrated old florist, Thomas Hogg of Paddington Green, 
London. It is referred to as one of the finest varieties on account of 
its rich colours and its broad, Eose-shaped petals, so that the German 
florists are not novices in the raising of fine yellow-ground varieties. I 
may say that in fancies Carnations and Picotees are getting very 
much mixed, as flakes and stripes run down the petals in some kinds, 
and the distinctive fine edging of the florists’ Picotee is so little met 
with in some varieties, the Continental ones especially. 
Brand von Hamburg, —A medium-sized flower, orange ground colour, 
with bright orange scarlet mai kings, smooth petal, and an acquisition. 
Calypso (Benary).—Of dwarf habit, rich coloured clouded crimson 
and maroon, with a lighter colour at the base of each petal. A very 
distinct, rich coloured flower, of good form and substance. 
Celsius (Benary).—Old gold colour, flaked with scarlet, fine and 
distinct. 
Duchess of Portland (Simonite).—A large flower with broad petals, 
pale yellow ground colour with mauve edge, and a free bloomer. 
Eclipse (Simonite).—Large size, good form, and petal, rich creamy 
yellow ground with bright scarlet edge, and slightly striped with the 
same colour. 
fig. 58.— CYPRIPEDIDM CLONIUS. 
{See page 394.) 
Mrs. Henwood (^Doug\&^'). —A beautiful light yellow-ground flower 
with bright scarlet edge and good broad petal. A decided acquisition. 
Molthe (Benary).—Deep yellow with heavy red edge. Quite an 
acquisition and distinct. 
Miss Gilmore (Simonite).—Pale cream ground with rosy mauve 
edging. 
Mrs, Rolert Sydenham (Douglas).—The finest of all the yellow 
ground varieties. The colour is a rich creamy yellow with bright 
rose edging, with fine petal and of great substance. A superbly brilliant 
flower of the finest quality. 
Mrs. William Spencer. —A seedling of Mr. Herbert’s, best described 
as a fine companion variety to Mrs. Eobert Sydenham. Primrose yellow 
