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GRAHAM’S YELLOW PERFECTION WALLFLOWER. 
WITH AN ILLUSTRATION. 
There is a considerable amount of satisfaction to be experienced by the 
raiser of a meritorious novelty of some popular flower, and not by liim only, 
but also by the public, who share with him in the result of his labours. This 
feeling must, however, be experienced in a much larger degree when the subject 
is one of those which may be designated as everybody’s flower. There must, 
we suppose, have been some recompence of this sort in the case of the Wall¬ 
flower which we now figure; for while on the one hand it is a novelty of great 
excellence, on the other it belongs to a family which emphatically ranks as 
everybody’s flower, being one of those which find an equally appropriate home 
in the garden of the palace or the cottage; and one, moreover, which, in some 
of its forms, probably finds its way more frequently than any other into the 
garden enclosure. 
Graham’s Yellow Perfection Wallflower was raised by F. J. Graham, Esq., 
of Cranford, and is the result of careful seeding and selecting through many 
generations. The object set out to be attained was to produce a variety in 
which the flowers should be of a pure yellow colour, of large size, and of good 
form. These points of excellence have all been attained; and when we add 
that the flower is one of the sweetest of its race, we shall have indicated that 
the plant possesses all the elements of popularity. Further than this, it may 
suffice to say that our figure gives a good notion of its general appearance. 
A plant of this novel Wallflower, show by Mr. Graham at South Kensington 
in the spring of 1863, received a commendation as a beautiful, bright-coloured, 
hardy spring flower, and was described as being remarkably sweet-scented. 
We venture to think that it will be a valuable acquisition. Of its fragrance 
there can be no doubt whatever; and, planted in line along with the large, 
rich, dark-coloured variety with which the Germans have made us familiar, 
there can be as little doubt that it would produce a beautiful effect, and be 
found invaluable for the decoration of the spring flower garden. 
M. 
“ SPRING FLOWER-GARDENING.” 
Permit me, a humble dweller and worker in the very outskirts of the 
world of floriculture, far away from the great metropolis, where it finds an 
appropriate centre for all its forces to exert themselves—permit me to give 
forth my utterance among the other oracles that look to the Florist and 
Pomologist for publicity. I have not read Mr. Fleming’s work on the above 
topic; I have never seen his operations at Cliveden; I cannot, therefore, be 
charged with plagairism when I venture to record what, in my own little 
sphere, I have done, with scarcely a neighbour to interest himself in my 
operations. 
A most indispensable requisite to successful spring flower-gardening is a 
north border. Here is the “ nursery ” in which to rear your youthful floricul- 
tural progeny on which you rely to people your borders in the coming winter 
and spring. It must be moderately shady and moist, and be ready for you to 
commence operations early in the month of June. Such a spot as this I have 
available, and here I labour to call into existence the forces with which I 
operate by-and-by. Here commence the combinations of subjects with my 
fancy, that shall, in the rear of winter, make old Dame Nature’s face sparkle 
and brighten at what she shall bear on her bosom. 
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