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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ March, 
Mr. Bull’s Clipper , Dr. Lindley , and Rival, Mr. Hibberd’s Richard Headley, 
and Thomas Moore amongst the Scarlets ; with Mr. William Paul’s Blue Bell , and 
Mrs. William Paul may claim considerable pretensions to symmetry of form, and 
amongst the numerous varieties called u zonals,” there are many others well 
deserving a place in our conservatories; but I cannot admit that their qualities 
entitle them to belong to the class of which I am now treating, although from 
their form of petal they may be considered to be more nearly allied to it than to 
the decorative class, of which I think the Nosegay may be considered to be the 
type. Included in this indefinite group, I know of nothing more strikingly 
pleasing than the brilliant yet soft rose-coloured truss of Surpasse Beaute de 
Sur ernes, which ought to have a conspicuous place in every conservatory. Mr. 
Turner’s Pioneer , Messrs. F. and A. Smith’s Acme , a French one called Cham , also, 
Jean Sisley , Leonidas , Madame Werle, Emile Licciu, Clio , Louis Veuillot , Mo ns. 
G. Nachet , Provost , Vesuvius, Warrior, Sobieski , Mons. Renclatler , and Claude 
Lorraine , are all too useful to be discarded until their places can be better filled. 
Many of them are, at any rate, great improvements upon the ill-conditioned starry 
pip we were wont to consider the type of the Scarlet section. We are sadly 
deficient in good whites ; Virgo Marie is still the purest we have. 
For novelty and brilliancy of colour there is nothing to equal Celestial (an 
advance obtained by Mr. William Paul from Mr. Beaton’s break into novel colour), 
but in form and substance it is very deficient. I shall have to allude to a few of 
these varieties again when upon the subject of Bedders. 
A good “ habit,” although a desideratum even for pot-culture, is not of so 
much importance for that, as for bedding purposes. Of the varieties I have 
noticed, I should instance Leonidas and Jean Sisley as decidedly the best examples 
for habit, Lord Derby as very fair, and Clipper as decidedly the worst.— John 
Denny, Stoke Newington. 
WINDOW PLANTS. 
II.— Bichardia ^thiopica, or Trumpet Lily, 
HIS elegant and graceful plant, formerly better known as Calla cethiopica, 
was introduced into this country from the Cape of Good Hope in 1731. 
It is of the Arum family, and is peculiarly well adapted as a window plant, 
both by the facility with which it may be grown and its accommodating- 
habit for culture. I am not aware of any other plant so well adapted for this 
mode of culture, which develops so many graceful and flowing lines in the course 
of its growth, every stage bringing out some new beauty, rich in the most grace¬ 
ful curves, to watch the daily unfolding of which constitutes one of its prin¬ 
cipal charms as a window plant. It has also a very striking appearance when 
mixed in quantity among other plants in a conservatory. 
It certainly is not a plant which appeals to the fashion of the times, because 
it is entirely wanting in that gorgeous brilliancy of colour which is the chief 
