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advance on tlie older kinds in form, substance, and distinctness 
and brilliancy of colour. Many of them are likewise richly spotted 
on the iipi^er petals, a featnre which adds greatly to their beauty. 
Gem (Ivery), pale purple, fine form. 
General Williams, pale scarlet, fine form. 
Rosy Circle, light purple, fine shape. 
Sir Charles Napier (Kinghorn), salmon, extra fine. 
Eulalie (Van Geert), blush pink, spotted. 
Symmetry (Kinghorn), rosy red, fine. 
Stanleyana, orange scarlet, very fine form. 
Chelsoni, orange scarlet, fine. 
Louis Napoleon, crimson violet, semi-double. 
Juliana, orange scarlet, very good. 
*Empress Eugenie (Rollisson). 
*Beauty of Dropmore (Frost). 
Imperatrice Josephine (Rollisson), cherry colour, good form. 
Marie, carmine, richly spotted. 
Rosalie, salmon colour, very distinct. 
Crispiflora (Standish), rosy lake, distinct. 
Duke of Wellington (E. G. Henderson), light scarlet, finely spotted. 
Trotteriana, violet rose, distinct. 
Magnifica (Rollisson), new, fine colour. 
Petuniseflora, fine form. 
Princess Royal, lake, with vermilion spots. 
We beg to refer our readers to an excellent article on their 
cultivation at page 161 in our volume for 1855, to which w^e can 
add but little fresh information relative to their culture. In 
reference to the shape of the specimens by training, the writer of 
th.e article alluded to names the pyramidal or conical as one 
which well suits the habit of the Azalea. Where a less artificial 
style is attempted, the plant should be trained so as to form a 
somewhat irregular round-headed bush, with the branches brought 
down so as to cover the rim of the pot, in which -form they are 
very elfective when in bloom. Standard Azaleas are now getting 
common; we prefer them worked with a clean stem one 
foot high. The varieties for these low standards should consist of 
those kinds with a close compact habit, as Gledstanesi, lateritia, 
Iveryana, and the plants should be encouraged to grow by 
preventing their blooming till the heads get a good size—say ten 
or twelve inches in diameter—when they form the prettiest objects 
we have for small vases, ornamenting dinner tables, &c. For 
standards three feet high the stocks should be very strong before 
working them, and freer growing kinds may be employed. These 
latter make fine conservatory plants. 
When Azaleas have attained as large a size as a No. 1 pot will 
grow them they may be kept in health for a number of years by 
slightly reducing the ball and picking out a part of the old 
compost, afterwards replacing them in the same pot with fresh 
* Figured iu the Florist for 1855, page 160. 
