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TWENTY-FOUR OLDER ONES, VERY SHOWY, AND BETTER ADAPTED FOR 
BEDS THAN SOME OF THE ABOVE. 
Alba Adoratissima (Barker).—Blush, with lilac eye. 
Amethystina. —Light blue. 
Atrosanguinea (Chandler).—Crimson, with yellow eye. 
Aurora (Youell).—Pinkish salmon. 
Barkerii (Barker).—Dark scarlet. 
Beauty Supreme. —Rose, very large. 
Bicolor Grandijlora (Van Houtte).—Scarlet, with dark eye. 
Boule de Feu (Girling).—Bright scarlet. 
Champion (Smith).—Rosy salmon. 
Comet (Miller).—Cream, dark centre. 
Delight (Smith).—Primrose. 
Eliza. —Delicate salmon. 
Emma (Walton).—Deep purple. 
Favorite (Miller).—Bright rose. 
Heloise (Dufoy).—Rich purple, fine shape ; the best of its class. 
Imperatrice Josephine (Salter).—Fine deep blue. 
Lord John Russell (Smith).—Bright salmon. 
Lord Thurlow (Barker).—Crimson maroon. 
Merry Monarch (Smith).—Shaded orange crimson. 
Miss Harcourt (Cutter).—Pure white ; the best known. 
Mountain of Snow (Pearson).—Colour pure white, first-rate form. 
Reine de Francais (Dufoy).—Pink, with a rich carmine centre. 
Vulcan (Youell).—Rose and scarlet. 
Wonder of Scarlets (Ivery).—Scarlet. Our Note-Book. 
BIRDS IN CONNEXION WITH GARDENS AND PLANTS. 
I PRESUME the pages of The Florist are open to any observations upon 
birds in connexion with gardens, plants, seeds, &c.; and many of 
your lady-readers, with myself, will feel additional interest in the 
work, if notes upon these interesting creatures occasionally appear. 
For my own part, my garden would lose half its interest if its fea¬ 
thered inhabitants were banished; and although I am frequently 
reminded by my gardener of the manner in which the chaffinches and 
tom-tits have carried off his buds and seeds, or the blackbirds and 
thrushes his ripest and best strawberries, he cannot prevail over 
“ Missus’s obstinacy,” and obtain permission to shoot them. In 
consequence, the birds behave as if they had a vested right in the 
estate; the robins more particularly, as the following will shew. 
Noticing my little red-breasted friend, some time back, in my heath- 
house, with a dead leaf in his bill, I watched where he intended to 
deposit it, and was surprised to find that he had selected the heart of 
a fine plant of “ Cavendishii.” Thinking this rather too impertinent, 
I cleared away his rubbish, and thought no more of it until, a few 
days after, seeing him fly out of the same plant, I found he had posi¬ 
tively taken possession again. I had the plant moved, but to no 
purpose ; and at last have had to cover it with a large wire-gauze 
meat-cover, to send him about his business elsewhere. 
Devon. Margaret. 
