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THE FLOEIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ JANUARY, 
is a question sometimes put by those who are desirous of trying their hands at 
growing this gorgeous flower. The following list, compiled by that well-known 
cultivator and exhibitor, Mr. Samuel Barlow, Chadderton, near Manchester, 
represents a group of varieties that there is no difficulty in procuring; and it will 
be observed, that a selection of eight varieties in each class is given :— 
Feathered Bizarres. 
Demosthenes. 
George Hayward. 
Sir Joseph Paxton. 
Garibaldi (Ashmole). 
Herald (Battersby). 
Commander. 
Masterpiece (Slater). 
Snlphur (Birtwistle). 
Feathered Byblcemens. 
Adonis (Headly). 
Friar Tuck (Slater). 
Bessie (Hepworth). 
;Mr, Pickerell. 
Martin’s 101 (Martin). 
William Bentley (Groom). 
Mrs. Cooper. 
David Jackson (Jackson). 
Feathered Roses. 
Heroine. 
Kate Connor (Slater). 
Aglaia. 
Charmer (Martin), 
Mrs. Lomax (Martin). 
Little Annie (^Martin). 
Industry (Lea). 
Mrs. Lea (Lea). 
Flamed Bizarres. 
Sir Joseph‘Paxton (Willison). 
Ajax (Hardy). 
Dr. Hardy (Storer). 
Orion (Storer). 
IMasterpiece (Slater). 
Polyphemus. 
George Hayward (Lawrence). 
Lord Delamere (Hardy). 
Flamed Byblolmens. 
Talisman (Hardy). 
Duchess of Sutherland (Walker). 
Salvator Rosa (Brown). 
Nimbus (Hardy). 
Adonis (Hardy). 
Bacchus. 
Lord Denman. 
Constant. 
Flammed Roses. 
Aglaia. 
Trioraphe Royale. 
Kate Connor (Slater). 
Circe (Headly). 
Mrs. Headly (Headly), 
Annie IMcGregor (Martin). 
Rose Celestial (Walker). 
Mrs. Lomax (Martin). 
Let me add that the recent lamented death of Dr. Hardy, of Warrington, 
leaves a great gap in the ranks of Northern Tulip-cultivators.— E. Dean, Kaling. 
PLANTS AS SANlTAPr SCOUTS FOP HUMAN BEINGS. 
S qHAT plants are sanitary agents is now pretty generally known. They purify 
^ the air and keep up the supply of oxygen that sustains respiration and 
f feeds combustion. They also convert carbonic acid gas into carbon and 
set the oxygen free, to maintain the matchless constitution of the atmos¬ 
phere inviolate. It is impossible to over-estimate the importance of the^e services 
to man and other animals. But it is not of these world-wide health-and-life 
preserving functions of plants that I would now write, but rather of the special 
service they may render to us in our dwelling-houses by testing, as it were, and 
revealing the fitness of the air in them for our use. Broadly stated, it is almost 
certain that the atmosphere best suited to promote and conserve the health of the 
plants of temperate climes, is likewise that most likely to conserve our own. Let us 
take, for instance, such a well-known and somewhat sensitive plant as the Camellia. 
How comes it that it suffers so much in so many living-rooms and windows, that many 
have given up using it for these purposes, on account of the injury inflicted upon it by 
such uses? It is an easy matter to remove the plants and to substitute others of less 
