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NEW PLANTS. 
ADVICE TO PURCHASERS OF NEW PLANTS. 
Petunias. Perhaps no family of plants ever rose so rapidly 
in favour and numbers as this has done in the last three or four 
years. The observations we have been enabled to make at various 
times confirms a preconceived idea, that it is only in the first 
attempts, where difficulty of any consequence is likely to occur 
in the “ starting,” as it is termed, of almost any kind of plant 
into the production of seminal varieties. Up to a certain period 
they all appear to adhere to the normal character with a degree 
of pertinacity which nothing but continually repeated attacks 
will undermine; but once beyond this period, an infinitude of 
variety is quickly established, and then comes the necessity of 
selection. So it has been with the Petunia: seed and seedling 
varieties are produced with equal facility; and though, perhaps, 
not two of a hundred will be found exactly alike, there is yet 
much too great a similarity pervading the majority of those 
usually seen to maintain the genus in proper estimation. We 
should like, therefore, to urge upon all who think of raising 
seedlings through the present season, to determine upon having 
distinction among their flowers, never to preserve two, however 
good, which may approach each other at all closely. It may 
seem paradoxical, but, to a dealer, the best one is worth more 
than both together, and this we believe few who are acquainted 
with the subject will deny. The most distinct, and therefore 
desirable, of the new ones to be had this season are the 
following: 
Rendle’s Marginata superha. An excellent-shaped variety, of 
tolerable good substance, and beautiful colours; the tube, or eye, 
is dark purple maroon, the shading of which does not run up 
into the clear white ground colour, but terminates near the 
mouth of the orifice, and the limb is boldly margined with rosy- 
purple. 
Miller's Tiger is a mottled flower of a blueish-lilac tinge, varie¬ 
gated with a deeper purplish blue, and light divaricate veins. In 
point of colouring, it is an improvement on punctata, and deserv¬ 
ing a place among other new ones, 
Ivery's Pet Supei'b. This is decidedly the best formed and 
