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and beautiful of the varieties there grown, selected either for their compact 
dwarf habit, the profusion and continuity of their blossoms, and their useful and 
effective colours, just the points which give their value to Pansies as bedding- 
plants. All of the following have won certificates as bedded-out plants :— 
Flowers Mottled. 
Magpie. —An old, but useful variety, striking 
in appearance from the strongly contrasted 
colouring of its flowers; vigorous, hardy, 
and an abundant bloomer; flowers 
blackish-mulberry, with a large wedge- 
shaped spot of white at the tip of each 
petal; the spotting sometimes runs out, 
when for a time it becomes self-coloured. 
Flowers Purple. 
Dean’s Mulberry.—D warf-growing and of 
compact but spreading habit, free-flower¬ 
ing ; flowers dark reddish plum-purple 
with very small yellow eye; the flowers 
well displayed. 
Dean’s Lothair. —A showy variety, with a 
dwarf compact habit of growth; flowers 
large, deep purple, with small yellow eye; 
and broadish bronzy spot just below it on 
the lower petal; a distinct and rich-look¬ 
ing flower. 
Dicksons’ The Tory. —Of free and vigorous 
growth, blossoming abundantly and con¬ 
tinuously; flowers, large, deep bluish- 
purple, with white eye, in the front of 
which is placed a bilobed mulberry spot; 
good. 
Flowers Bluish-mauve. 
Dean’s Blue Bell. —A very showy variety, 
of compact, spreading, and free-blooming 
habit; flowers numerous, medium-sized, 
mauve-purple, with a small yellow eye 
pencilled with dark lines. The individual 
flowers are not equal to the average Pansy 
in shape, as they partake much of the 
Carnation type, but the effect of the mass 
is good, and it is a continuous bloomer. It 
is probably the best bedding Yiola in 
existence. 
Blue Perfection. —Of compact, free-bloom¬ 
ing habit; flowers medium-sized, of a deep 
reddish mauve with yellow eye; a fine 
effective self-coloured variety. 
—T. Moore. 
Flowers Lilac. 
Dean’s Lilacina. —A charming variety, of 
dwarf compact spreading habit, free- 
growing, and very distinct; flowers of 
moderate size, the upper petals of a red¬ 
dish-lilac, the lower ones bluish-lilac, with 
small yellow eye ; an exceedingly pretty 
and taking flower. 
Dicksons’ Queen op Lilacs. —A variety of 
free bold habit, forming close, vigorous 
tufts; flowers reddish-lilac, paler at the 
edge, and very freely produced; a soft, 
neutral colour, effective, and useful for 
grouping. 
Flowers Yellow. 
Dicksons’ Sovereign. —Of close growing 
habit, dwarf, free, and prolific of blossoms; 
flowers moderate in size, bright golden 
yellow, with a pencilled eye; very 
effective. 
Dean’s Bedpont Yellow. —A free-growing, 
compact-habited sort; flowers large, 
bright golden.yellow, with pencilled eye ; 
good. 
Dicksons’ Golden Gem. —A variety of 
dwarf spreading habit, and a free bloomer; 
flowers large, deep yellow with deeper 
eye, over which occur dark pencillings; 
good. 
Flowers White. 
Dicksons’ Queen. —A variety of free com¬ 
pact habit, an abundant bloomer, but 
rather later than some others; flowers 
large, white, with yellow eye and pencilled 
lines. 
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Dean’s White Swan. —A fine variety, of 
close tufted habit; flowers of moderate 
size, pure white with pencilled eye, of 
good substance, and very chaste-looking; 
tine. 
CULTURE OF TODEA SUPERBA. 
)R0BABLY the finest collection of noble specimens of this plant in cultiva- 
^ tion is to be found at Edinburgh, in the nurseries of the Lawson Seed 
and Plant Company. The house in which they are kept affords one of the 
most interesting sights in that remarkable establishment. The Todeas, 
with their graceful plumes, fill a large glass house, so that in passing down the 
central passage one seems to be in a meadow of this fern, the peculiar charm of 
