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the result if similar collections were placed before the public more frequently; 
and as the Eoyal Horticultural Society go to Oxford—a city that is a nest of old 
florists—in July next, at what is usually the height of the Carnation and Picotee 
bloom, it may be fairly anticipated that we shall there see, to some extent at 
least, a revival of olden times. 
The culture of these plants has been so fully and plainly given in former 
volumes of the Florist, that it is unnecessary to repeat it here. There is very 
little difference made as regards their treatment at the present day, though 
perhaps they are not quite so much nursed as formerly. Subjoined is a list of 
the best varieties in their different classes.— Charles Turner, Slough, 
Show Carnations. 
Scarlet Bizarres. 
Dreadnought. 
Lord Rancliffe. 
William Pitt. 
Crimson Bizarres. 
Anthony Dennis. 
Colonel North. 
Eccentric Jack. 
Rifleman. 
The Lamplighter. 
FinTc ^Pw'ple Bizarre. 
Falconbridge. 
Rose Flakes. 
Flora’s Garland. 
King John 
Rose of Stapleford. 
Scarlet Flakes. 
Annihilator. 
Cradley Pet. 
William Cowper. 
Purple Flakes. 
Dr. Foster. 
Earl of Stamford. 
Florence Nightingale. 
True Blue. 
Tree Carnations. 
Admiration. 
Beauty. 
Boule de Feu. 
Bride. 
Brilliant. 
Hector. 
Henshaw’s Scarlet. 
Lee’s Scarlet. 
Oscar. 
Rembrandt. 
The Dragon. 
Valiant. 
Clove Carnations. 
Bride. 
Garibaldi. 
Glory. 
Princess Alice. 
Queen of Whites. 
Snowflake. 
True Old Crimson. 
Show Pigotees. 
Red-Edged. 
Colonel Clerk. 
Exhibition. 
Forester. 
Lord Valentia. 
Miss Turner. 
Mrs. R. Hole. 
Purp le-Edged. 
Ganymede. 
Jessie. 
Lady Elcho. 
Admiration. 
Nimrod. 
Picco. 
Rose and Scarlet- 
Edged. 
Lucy. 
Miss Sewell. 
Miss Williams. 
Miss Wood. 
Mrs. Fisher. . 
Mrs. Rollings, 
TPIE CAUSE OF FAILUKE IN THE FKUIT CHOP OF 1869. 
@ HE very general failure of the different Fruit Crops throughout the United 
Kingdom and several parts of the Continent, has called forth the opinions 
of many, distinguished horticulturists as to the cause of so extensive a 
mishap, with a view to ascertain whether and in what respect our 
treatment has been defective. After such a season as that of 1868, which 
apparently ripened and matured the wood and fruit-buds to perfection, such 
unlooked-for deficiencies are certainly the more vexing, and leave some knotty 
questions to be settled. 
I have read with much interest, as they have appeared, the various remarks 
relating to this subject in the different gardening publications, and I observe that 
the prevaihng opinion is that the non-fructification of the blossoms was owing to 
unfavourable weather at the commencement of the year, and during the flowering 
period. This may, to a certain extent, be correct; but with the use of orchard, 
peach, and apricot houses, the trees being under glass, and the buds so perfectly 
developed, the state of the weather outside should not have occasioned so general 
a failure. It is by no means uncommon in the early forcing of peach houses, in 
