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THE FLOEIST AND POMOLOQIST. 
[ June, 
‘‘ chaney ” in Lancashire. No objection, but the very contrary, should be taken 
to edged flowers of rich and lasting crimson and blue grounds ; but the zone of 
body-colour should assuredly keep its one deep shade, without the velvet pile 
wearing off, or weaker tints creeping into its texture; a firm, true body-colour 
strengthens the whole pip, and a shaky one weakens its brilliancy and decision of 
character. A black body-colour looks well in either green, grey, or white edges ; 
and when we get blue into the whites and crimson into the greens, the Auricula 
will be very greatly enriched. At the Palace Show, my friend, Mr. Simonitc, had 
two lovely illustrations of the effect of blue in white edges in his two seedlings, 
Franks and Fanny Crossland. 
Frank is a flower of particular brightness, so smooth and white in edge and 
paste, that it seems to give out light. It is a large, flat, round flower, tube bold 
and circular, and with more colour in it than flowers with blue in them are 
usually able to show; paste broad and dense, round in the best pips, and a little 
wavy in the weak ones ; ground-colour broad and bold, of a lovely liquid-violet 
blue, a beautiful new strain ; edge pure, brilliant, lasting white; plant large and 
handsome ; foliage broad, serrated, half-mealed; not a free breeder. 
Fanny Crossland is yet a very young sort, a flower of the same new combina¬ 
tions ; body-colour, if anything, bluer than in Frank; edge pure white ; tube 
good and lasting ; paste fine; pip circular and flat. Parentage of these two 
seedlings not known. 
Talisman was raised from Admiral Napier, a green edge, like its parent, but a 
much better thing in every way. Napier is as soon past his best as a Eose is, 
and grows out of shape in a day or two. Talisman is a very long-lived flower, 
large and circular, flat when in good order; tube bold, and of a full lasting 
yellow; paste pure, dense, broad, and round when right; ground-colour jet black, 
heavily laid on, and not dashing through the edge, which is a soft vivid green of 
good breadth ; petals broad, six to the pip ; plant good-humoured, and a large free 
grower; foliage broad, large, smooth, green, evidently of the Palmerston type, 
which Napier belongs to. 
From the same , raiser came the grey-edge named W7n. Bradshaw., with large, 
round, flat pip, of good substance; circular tube of full yellow, paste perfect in 
all properties ; body-colour dark and bold, edge full rich grey, beaded. Also a 
red seedling, pip round, but slightly notched on petal-edges ; tube good, yellow, 
paste broad and dense, and without any break or “ foxey ” line between it and 
the body-colour, which is a truer red than Lord Lome. 
Mr. Turner also exhibited a seedling grey. Peacemaker., that seemed, like 
Geo. Levick, a flower that shivers in a cold season such as this; tube good yellow, 
and paste light; ground-colour black and lively, edge lightly-mealed grey ; 
probably starved in the pip. 
Besides these new flowers, I have received two white-edged pips of exceeding . 
promise. One is exactly like Taylor’s Glory, freed of all her faults, perfectly 
round and flat, with broad white edge, plum body-colour, that does not fade, like 
