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other earlier sorts were in, and the proportion of late-flowering plants proved 
to be very small indeed, compared with that of a year or two after it was sent out. 
If, therefore, care be not taken, by those who grow the seed for the public, to 
weed out the earlier produce, and save seed only from the very latest heads, it 
will follow after others, and we shall lose it altogether, which all who grow it 
know we can ill afford to do. 
Of course, the seasons have a great influence on the lateness of Broccoli, but as 
it is scarcely possible to grow them too late, every effort should be made to retain 
that qualification in a vegetable that is so serviceable as a good late Broccoli. I 
generally make about three sowings of Cattell’s Eclipse, at intervals of about 
three weeks, and plant each on different aspects. The latest I cut this season 
was from a northern aspect, on a border under a wall, on Saturday, June 6 ; and 
from hand-lights cauliflowers were cut the last week in May.— Thomas Record, 
Vinter's Park^ Maidstone. 
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f HAVE often found a difficulty in the difference of opinion expressed by com¬ 
petent judges as to the merits of certain plants and flowers, and in no case is 
this more remarkable than among Zonal Pelargoniums. As a practical cultiva- 
tor, I can make due allowances for circumstances, soil, and climate, but these 
put together hardly amount to a solution of the difficulty. I think the anomalies 
must arise from the want of a clearly defined and acknowledged standard to judge 
by. In the case of Pelargoniums, for example, one grower or class of growers 
will be influenced principally by the flower, another by the truss, a third will be 
swayed by the habit of the plant, and a fourth will weigh all these points in 
combination, giving to each his estimate of their respective value, and pronouncing 
accordingly. Certainly, when dealing with a plant which is used for such various 
purposes, it would seem to help to an accurate estimate of value if the plant 
were looked at from one or other of two points of view,—(1) as a florist’s 
flower, in which shape, size, and substance are the chief requisites ; and (2) as a 
decorative or bedding plant, in which colour, habit of growth, freedom and 
duration of flowering, should be placed in the ascendant. This, I am aware, has 
been done in the Report of the Royal Horticultural Society, so far as to classify 
them as “bedding plants” and “pot-plants,” but the “ doctors” still differ widely, 
which I will proceed to show, by placing side by side the opinions of the Floral 
Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society of London, and those of two or 
three of the largest growers of this plant in the vicinity of London ;— 
Golden Tricolors. 
Allan-X-Dale : Discarded as a bedding sort, recommended as superior for 
bedding, E. G. Henderson ^ Son. 
Hong Kong : Discarded as a bedding sort, R.H.S.} recommended as superior for bedding, 
E. G. Henderson ^ Son. 
Miss Batters : Discarded as a bedding sort, R.H.S.; recommended as a bedding sort, 
H. Cannell. 
Mrs. Dunnett : Discarded as a bedding sort, R,H.S. ; recommended as superior for 
bedding, E. G, Henderson ^ Son. 
