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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[September, 
I have given the rows in which each should be planted. Tulips are generally 
planted seven in a row, the most dwarf being outside and the tallest in the 
middle. “ First row ” applies to one and seven, “ second row ” to two and six, 
“ third row” to three and five, and “fourth row” to the centre. 
Rectified Bizaeres. 
Sir Joseph Paxton (Willison).—A grand flower, too well known to need description, 
and as it has won the premier prize at the Royal National Exhibition every year for the last 
eight years for the best flamed flower in any class, it must bo pronounced indispensable. It 
is also one of the best feathered bizarres in cultivation. Third row. 
Ajax (Hardy).—A noble pan-flower, evidently a seedling from and a great improve¬ 
ment upon Poly]ohemus; base and ground-colour, fine clear yellow, with a dark chestnut- 
brown feather, and in the beam of the flamed variety a, fine rich mulberry-colour. When in 
the feathered state the pencilling is very beautiful, but its best character is that of a flamed 
flower;—indispensable. Third row. 
Masterpiece (Slater).—A black feather upon a deep rich yellow ground; it is very 
fine, both as a feathered and as a flamed flower, but is most valuable in the feathered state. 
This variety, when opening, has the edges of the outer petals turned inside, and unless they 
are opened out, these outer petals stand out from the inner ones, and the flower has an ugly, 
slovenly appearance. When well finished, it is perhaps the best feathered bizaiTO that has 
yet been raised. Second row. 
George Hayward (Lawrence).—This is a very fine Bizarre in the feathered state; it is 
also good as a flamed flower, although inferior to Sir J. Paxton and Ajax in that state. 
Although a noble pan-flower in the feathered state, the feathering has little of the refined 
pencilling which adds so much to the beauty of a feathered flower, but is what is termed a 
“ plated ” flower. This variety is very inconstant, sometimes feathered and sometimes 
flamed, and sometimes out of all character, and this from the same bulb. Third row. 
Garuialdi (Ashmole).—In the feathered state, a beautiful pan-flower; colour, a I’ich 
yellow; feathering, a peculiarly bright chestnut-brown. Although the feather is apt to 
come a little top-heavy, it is, when in a fine state, beautifully pencilled. Rather inconstant 
and worthless in the flamed state. Second row. 
Dr. Hardy and Orion (Storer).—Those two stand a long way in advance of all other 
varieties, in the class known as red bizarres, of which Bowler’s Everard may be taken as a 
type. Dr. Hardy is the better of the two, and to look inside a well-flamed flower of this variety 
is a treat; the purity and brilliance of the yellow has no equal in any other variety, and this 
is well matched by the intense richness of its markings, of which the colour is also unique. 
I think this is the finest flamed bizarre that has over yet been raised. Orion is only a little 
inferior to Dr. Hardy in the brilliance of its yellow, and the intensity of its colouring; they 
are, in sooth, a noble pair. The northern growers used to have a groat objection to red 
bizarres, and not without some reason, as the red bizai-re of thirty years ago had usually a 
weak, washed-out appearance ; but Dr. Hardy and Orion have revolutionised all this, and no 
bed is considered complete without them. Dr. Hardy, second row; Orion, third row. 
Demosthenes (Headly).—A very fine feathered bizarre, very similar to the old Royal 
Sovereign, very often seen in the winning stands; worthless as a flamed flower. Fourth row. 
Surpass Polyphemus. —Broken from a breeder sold to me as Polyphemus. A most 
superb break, and has bloomed very constantly for twenty years. It has a much better base 
than Polyphemus, both base and stamens being always pure; a good pan-flower; has never 
bloomed in a feathered state. Third row. 
Commander (Marsden).—A fine heavy feathered Bizarre, in the way of, but a great 
improvement upon, the old variety Catafalque Superior or Rising Sun ; this sort has bloomed 
this year slightly stained on the stamens in most of the flowers, a peculiarity I have never 
observed before. Second row. 
Lord Byron (Ashmole).—Broken by the late Wm. Lea from a breeder which he pur¬ 
chased from Ashmole. This is, no doubt, a fine strain of Ashmolo’s Lord Raglan, 
feathered and very constant; other breaks have been made of Lord Raglan both feathered 
and flamed, and have been exhibited in fine condition; but this. Lord Byron, appears to 
be the most constant as a feathered flower. Synonyms ought not to be permitted, and this 
flower ought to bo, and I hope in the future will be, always named by its true name. Lord 
Raglan. Second row. 
