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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ November, 
At the meeting of the National Auricula Society at Manchester in April last, 
a promising grey-edged Auricula was shown, under the name of The Czm\ by Mr. 
Thomas Woodhead. This variety should have been named Dr. Horner and was 
obtained by crossing George Lightbody with John Waterson. This flower was so 
much admired by some of the Auricula cognoscenti that it has been deemed 
worthy of distribution, and has passed into the hands of Mr. J. Booth, of Fails- 
worth, for the purpose. Mr. Read did not send me a pip of this with the others, 
as it proved earlier to bloom than the others, and had passed its best. A pip of 
the true Czar was sent by Mr. Read ; the tube was of deep gold, without a trace 
of paleness ; the paste very smooth, the body-colour black and well deflned, and 
a densely mealed grey edge, almost white. This struck me as being a very pro¬ 
mising flower, but how it will compare with other fine varieties in the same section 
remains to be proved. The Czar resulted from the same cross as Dr. Horner. 
Two other grey-edged seedlings which Mr. Read had deemed worthy of being 
named were as follows :—The Empress.^ raised from Smiling Beauty and Regular. 
This has a good golden tube, white paste, dark body-colour, and broad grey edge. 
The pip sent was a young one, and the paste was wanting in circularity, but 
Mr. Read stated that the flower comes much better proportioned with age, and 
that at the time of his sending he had one or two pips remarkably fine. Apology 
is a grey-edge and has a flne smooth paste, dark ground, broad edge, and a good 
tube, the pip stout and circular ; a chaste and attractive flower. No. 3-2 was a 
promising grey-edge, pip good, the ground-colour pale, and tube right,—a well- 
proportioned flower. A promising white-edge, numbered 5-4, was obtained from 
Regular and Smiling Beauty. The pip sent represented a pretty white edge, 
golden tube, dense body-colour, and good white paste; small in size, but that 
was the result of want of development. 
Ruby., a good dark self, was obtained from Pizarro, crossed with Blackbird, 
and it appeared intermediate in colour between Duke of Argyll and Topsy ; the 
paste was dense, white, and circular, and the tube good, for a self-flower. 
I should like to see the Rev. F. D. Horner taking these flowers in hand, and 
giving them the benefit of his great skill in the culture of the Auricula, for 
two or three seasons. His opinions of them would be a valuable contribution 
to contemporary floral criticism, and I am sanguine enough to think it would 
bear out the favourable predilections I am disposed to indulge in concerning 
them.— Richard Dean, Ealing.^ W. 
BRADDICK^S NONPAKEIL APPLE. 
HAVE grown this valuable apple for several years as a dwarf standard, for 
which it is well adapted, being a great bearer, and thus rendered sturdy 
and bushy. It belongs to the Nonpareil section, and like most other 
newish kinds, is of healthier habit than the older varieties to which it is 
allied. The fruit of the Variety in question is larger and flatter in shape than 
that of the Old or the Scarlet Nonpareil, is of excellent flavour, and keeps equally 
