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Lawrenco’s George Hayward. 
Bowler’s Everard. 
Lawrence’s J. R. Scrivener. 
Pitman’s Glory of Abingdon. 
Groom’s Henry Groom. 
Sanders’ Yivid. 
Groom’s Mr. F. Perkins. 
Gibbons’ Caliph. 
Lawrence’s Polyphemus. 
Walker’s Duchess of Sutherland. 
Goldham’s John Kemble. 
Clark's Thalia. 
Gibbons’ Maid of Orleans. 
Hepworth’s Queen of the North. 
Gibbons’ Princess Royal. 
Rutley’s Queen. 
Abbott’s Lord Denman. 
Strong’s Claude. 
Headly’s Sarah Headly. 
Barlow’s Rose Celestial. 
Goldham’s Gem. 
Gibbons’ Duchess of Sutherland. 
Cresswell’s Vicar of Radford. 
Lawrence’s Emily. 
Triomphe Royale. 
Headly’s Naomi. 
Heroine. 
—John Ball, Slough. 
Bizarres. 
Headly’s Pactolus. 
Willison’s Sir J. Paxton. 
Storer’s Dr. Hardy. 
Turner’s Richard Headly. 
Groom’s Lord Raglan. 
Groom’s Dr. Horner. 
Delaforce’s King. 
Sanders’ Owen Glendower. 
Royal Sovereign. 
Byblcemens. 
Headly’s Adonis. 
Groom’s Victoria Regina. 
Storer’s Clara. 
Lyde’s Nora Creina. 
Battersby’s Chancellor. 
Violet Amiable. 
Rutley’s Rachel Ruish. 
Alexander Magnus. 
Gibbons’ Purple Perfection. 
Roses. 
Dixon’s Arlette. 
Jeffreys’ Elizabeth. 
Headly’s Mary Headly. 
Lawrence’s Aglaia. 
Gibbons’ Lady Stanley. 
Dixon’s Maid of Falaise. 
Gibbons’ Anastacia. 
Claudiana. 
Hayward’s Magnificent. 
GARDEN LITERATURE. 
have before us a volume entitled Hardy Flowers,* which is devoted 
) a description of the hardy perennials best suited for garden decoration 
—the cream of the ornamental herbaceous alpine and bulbous plants now 
to be had in cultivation. Plants of this character had been nearly 
elbowed out of our gardens by those used for bedding purposes ; but attempts have 
been made from time to time by the horticultural press to lead back the public 
taste towards the many fine hardy flowers which are to be had for the seeking. 
These attempts have not been altogether unsuccessful, for border flowers are 
evidently making way in many quarters, while the blaze of the parterre is being 
toned down by the use of foliage plants—those of low stature being used for 
carpet-beds, and the larger and nobler among them for striking groups or as 
isolated specimens. 
The volume now under notice takes its part in this work. It contains, 
besides the descriptions of many hundreds of handsome hardy plants, bulbous or 
fibrous, a considerable amount of information of a character likely to make this 
class of plants more manageable by amateurs, for not only is the culture of each 
• * 
* Hardy Flowers: Descriptions of upwards of 1,300 of the most Ornamental Species, and Directions for their 
Arrangement, Culture, 6cc. By W. Robinson, F.L.S. London: Warne and Co. 
