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roseum is extensively used for the same purpose. Very dwarf plants 
of the gorgeous Poinsettia pulcherrima are grown in quantity, and 
make a great display during November and December, and at the 
same time Linum trigynum, with its rich golden flowers, similar in size 
and shape to a Convolvulus; this is rarely seen in a satisfactory 
condition, it being so subject to red spider, and certainly is not usually 
grown in numbers to sell as a flowering plant, and would not be here if 
it could not be made to bloom at the dullest time of the year, and with 
healthy clean foliage too. There is also a dwarf growing variety of 
scarlet Geranium, which they have found out to be an incessant 
winter-flowering one; it is called Queen. All the winter months it is 
continually sending up bloom, and hence large quantities of it are 
grown; Christina also produces its rosy pink flowers all the winter. 
I found also that they have a kind of yellow Calceolaria which is 
admirably adapted for the hot soil and glaring sun of Brighton; this 
they call Brighton Yellow, is very free flowering and easily propagated. 
This may be interesting to those who have found their Calceolarias 
going off in large numbers during the hot weather. From what I have 
said it will be easily gathered that the greater portion of the stock is 
sold in a flowering state; and as they are carefully looked after and 
well grown, the Geraniums are not crammed full of sticks, but short 
and stubby, and deserve a better fate than that which they too often 
meet with—to be at first praised and petted, and then drawn and 
excited by a dry atmosphere and crowded rooms, to pine away and die. 
But Messrs. Spary and Campbell are also raisers of seedlings. I 
find in Mr. Turner’s catalogue a Petunia called Peerless, described as 
a rich glossy crimson—an improvement on Phaeton—with dwarf habit, 
an excellent self variety; this was raised by them, and there is also 
another of their’s, which is to be let out by Messrs. E. G. Henderson 
& Son, a fine bold dark one, called British Lion. They will also send 
out shortly a seedling early forcing Geranium—a cross between album 
multiflorum and Gauntlet—of a bright lively salmon pink colour, called 
Valentine, and it promises to be a useful acquisition. They have also 
a seedling show Pelargonium, with variegated foliage; the plant at 
present is small, but if the marking continues permanent, it will be the 
first instance of variegation occurring in that tribe of our popular 
favourites. Although my visit was paid at a time of the year when 
nearly everything in flower was sold out, and when consequently the 
houses were at their worst, yet I felt that one gained an insight into 
the manner in which we may adapt ourselves to circumstances; and as I 
pursue gardening under difficulties myself, am always glad when I 
see anyone successfully surmounting the difficulties which to 
contend with. I quite forgot to mention that Mr. Spary has patented 
a new fumigator, which promises to be useful where Vines are culti¬ 
vated, it appearing to be excellently suited for the use of sulphur, &c, 
The energy which has enabled the proprietors to surmount their private 
difficulties has also been made available in a more public capacity, and 
the success of the Brighton Horticultural exhibitions—one of the most 
prosperous of the large provincial shows—is mainly owing to their 
indefatigable perseverance. 
Dealt March 21. 
D. 
