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Semiramis, a grand flower, of a peculiarly purplish rose with white lines in 
the centre of each petal. Norma, a large well-formed flower, French white 
stained with lilac. Princess Alice, lilac rose, stained with carmine. Mozart, 
Rossini, and Uranie, of this year’s sending-out, have not yet flowered with me. 
The following varieties sent out in 1867 have flowered very finely, and 
can he recommended to growers as of the very best quality. Shakespere, a 
grand flower, white flamed with carmine rose; it is an early bloomer, and 
has seeded plentifully with me. Euridyce, another grand light flower, 
white flamed with carmine. Milton, very fine white, tinted with rose. 
Thomas Moore, one of the very best, rosy carmine on a white ground. 
Princess Mary of Cambridge, clear white, large carmine spot. Lady Frank¬ 
lin, very fine, white ground, shaded with rose. Adolphe Brongniart, fine 
light rose, flamed with orange. Anais, very dwarf and fine, white and 
lilac shaded. Sir J. Paxton, fine large flower, light orange carmine on a 
white ground. Mareclial Vaillant, very fine scarlet with white lines. Sir W. 
Hooker, cherry and carmine, large flower. Grueze, rose cerise, fine spike. 
Noemie, large, light rose. Felicien David, cherry and rose, white throat. 
Apollon, rose and lilac, white throat. 
Of the older varieties the very best have been the following :— Meyerbeer, 
fine vermilion scarlet, grand spike and finely-shaped flowers; Madame 
Furtado, fine white and rose shaded; Reine Victoria, fine large white, one 
of the very best; Empress Eugenie, another fine white variety; Belle Gabrielle, 
lilac rose, flamed with rose ; Fulton, cerise scarlet, fine spike ; Lord Byron,, 
very bright crimson scarlet, but the flowers deficient in shape. I have 
flowered a very fine seedling of a bright yellow colour, raised from Eldorado. 
The flower is very large, and the shape and spike everything that could be 
desired. In the course of another year I expect to be able to exhibit it, 
along with some other promising seedlings. 
Welbeck. William Tillery, 
STONY GROUND PLANTS. 
T 73NDER this heading I would call attention to a highly interesting 
jLJ class of plants which I have successfully cultivated, and my ex¬ 
perience among which may be of some service to younger men when 
they have to clothe with beauty banks high and dry, where the little 
pinch of fine soil, like the mortar in a building, bears but a small 
proportion indeed to the bulk of shapeless stones, great and small, that give 
the land its appropriate name of stony ground. 
When the great Linnaeus admired the Furze bushes in flower on an 
English common, he only passed a graceful compliment to the Divine 
Wisdom which had loaded with beauty this prickly denizen of the waste. 
It is always instructive when the cultivator can come at a plant in its 
