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21. Dickson’s Unique : Either green or grey. A small but pretty 
Auricula, with a rounded petal and dark brownish violet body colour ; 
very ornamental. 
22. Fletcher’s Mary Ann: Not a striking but a solid flower. It has 
no quality lower than second rate, and none first; and from its con¬ 
stancy it will often stand first, though its eye is frequently too small. 
Its paste and ground colour are sometimes too evenly circular, which 
gives it a tame appearance. Good foliage, and hardy. 
23. Fletcher’s Ne Plus Ultra: A most striking flower, whether on 
the stage or for exhibition. Bolder than Imperator, colour nearly black; 
pencillings like daggers, in the form of the Aurora Borealis in the sky, 
but a bad constitutioned plant and dfficult to keep in health. 
24. Headley’s Stapleford Hero: Apparently a seedling from Mary 
Ann; bolder in character and less uniform than its parent, but pointed 
in petal and markings, which are of the same colour as Mary Ann. 
25. Headley’s Superb: Too similar to Waterhouse’s Conqueror of 
Europe to be held distinct, though it is not identical with it. The 
plant differs, though the bloom does not. 
26. Lightbody’s Alma: A good second-rate flower with a pointed 
and crumpled petal, but one which apparently might be caught for a 
show. Ground colour dark mahogany, with a good grey edge and 
orange tube, but not very attractive on the stage. 
27 . Lightbody’s Richard Headley : This promises to be a fine thing. 
An entire truss such as two pips of mine would be very difficult to 
surpass. The colour is a plum. The foliage is very peculiar, being 
very smooth, Pear-shaped, glaucous, and slightly mealed. As it threw 
up three trusses, and all from the heart, it may not be an inconstant 
flower because only two pips were presentable. 
28. Maclean’s Unique: A bad grower but a good flower, apparently 
intermediate between Mary Ann and Stapleford Hero; but my plant 
was defective. 
29. Smith’s General Bolivar: A fine thing, and beyond question the 
parent of Lancashire, to which it is often equal, though it requires what 
its seedling does not—to expand under a hand-glass in the sun, or it 
will cup, and not open out flat. It is superior to Ringleader, from 
which doubtless it sprang. 
30. Sykes’ Complete : A poor constitutioned plant but a determined 
flower, and an indispensable to stage or exhibition table. Its colour is 
nearly a pure black; petal rounded ; edge good ; pip not perfectly flat. 
31. Waterhouse’s Conqueror of Europe : Pip very large, and 
rounded and flat; truss good ; deficient in ground colour, which is 
chestnut, except sometimes in a maiden plant; good grey edge ; very 
constant, but the flower is coarse, often with a distinct stripe of white 
or yellow running down the centre of each petal, which sadly disfigures 
it. Still it is a show flower. 
WHITE EDGED. 
32. Campbell’s Robert Burns; A pretty feminine-looking flower, 
with foliage mealy, and whole habit as neat as a quakeress; colour 
generally light violet but inconstant, and pip equally so, some being 
