THE FLORIST. 
297 
And so on with every letter throughout the varieties you grow. By 
this system every bulb is readily found, not only in your book, but 
in your bed or cabinet. For instance, if Triomphe Royale be wanted, 
by turning to letter T we there read: 
3 Rose I 122 | Triomphe Royale, 3/2, 5/2, 3/14, 5/14, 3/32, 5/32, &c. 
meaning that the flower is a third row rose, its number under which 
the offsets are grown being 122, and that it is to be found as the 
third and fifth bulbs in the second row, the third and fifth in the 
fourteenth row, the third and fifth in the thirty-second row, &c., and 
the folio devoted to these particular rows contains the “ alterations 
and improvements noted down during blooming-time.” My custom 
is to write the names of each flower forming the row on the left-hand 
page, leaving the right-hand page blank, on which to note down 
memorandums against any particular bulb. This lettered index 
requires twenty-six pages, if every letter be kept separate, which is 
by far the best plan. Then follows the usual book, which I had ruled 
to my own order, each page having twenty-four horizontal lines, so 
that three rows are entered on each left-hand page. To better illus¬ 
trate my meaning, I will give a “ leaf out of my book” as it stood 
at the close of the past season, taking the first three rows as a 
specimen : 
I. 
Supposing this to be the right-hand 
1 Rose 
Cerise blanc. 
page, I have my memoranda thus : 
2 Bybl. 
Musidora. 
3 Biz. 
Glencoe. 
4 Rose 
Claudiana. 
5 Biz. 
Glencoe. 
6 Bybl. 
Musidora. 
Good, ex. 
7 Rose 
Cerise blanc. 
II. 
1 Bybl. 
Lord Denbigh. 
Sweet. 
2 Biz. 
Abercrombie. 
Full of colour. 
3 Rose 
Triomphe Royale. 
Was shewn. 
4 Bybl. 
Alcon. 
Anthers dark. 
5 Rose 
Triomphe Royale. 
6 Biz. 
Abercrombie. 
Better than 2/2. 
7 Bybl. 
Lord Denbigh. 
III. 
Very ex. ex.; was shewn. 
1 Biz. 
Albion. 
Fine. 
2 Rose 
Lucetta. 
3 Bybl. 
Friend. 
Had twelve anthers.* 
4 Biz. 
Lord Strathmore. 
Bold and good. 
5 Bybl. 
Friend. 
Had twelve anthers.* 
6 Rose 
Lucetta. 
Pretty. 
7 Biz. 
Albion. 
These books, ruled and lettered, may be had of Messrs. B. Cor¬ 
coran and Co., 36 Mark Lane, London, at a moderate cost; and as 
* At taking-up time, these bulbs had formed themselves each into four large 
offsets; is this unusual ? 
