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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
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thus obtained of its habit of growth and grass, incline me to the opinion that Lord Byron, 
P.F., a famous variety of the same raiser’s some twenty-five years ago, was its parent. Early 
in bloom, a good grower, and wants no forcing. A liberal use of small knobs of charcoal in 
the compost will no doubt be beneficial. First bloomed in 1865; sent out in 1868. 
—E. S. Dodwell. 
Croton trilobus. 
CROTON TRILOBUS AND ITS ALLIES. 
YEAR or two since tlie horticultural world was startled by the appearance 
of a distinct type of Croton —more correctly Codiceurn variegatum — 
having three-lobed or hastiforni leaves. There is perhaps no one amongst 
4/ our favourite cultivated plants which varies to so great an extent as the 
Croton, the leaf-form and leaf-colouring to be found amongst them being almost 
endless, but the existence of so markedly distinct a form as that now referred to 
was not suspected. 
