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trusser, with large healthy handsome foliage. It is still in the raiser’s 
hands, and the plant I sent to London belongs to him. 
Campbell's Lord Byron {Greert). —This raiser aims high, though 
not ail his progeny can claim a place among the first. The present is 
a very showy flower, dressy perhaps would be a better word; inferior 
perhaps to Admiral Napier, though the latter has a bead, but much 
better than Lord Palmerston, and its very deep mulberry colour is 
novel and attractive, and contrasts well with the edge. But it has too 
much of it; its paste is thin and undefined, and its short footstalks 
prevent the formation of a large handsome truss. Still I was very 
near showing it, for it has a pure and vivid green edge, which is so 
rare, though it is too narrow. 
Smith's Formosa^ self. —Of a colour that, though not new, is extremely 
rare, and reminds one of the nearly extinct Redman’s Metropolitan ; and 
is almost exactly that of a pasteless Auricula in my possession, imported 
some thirty years ago from Hamburgh. It is nearer lilac than any¬ 
thing else, but is a compound of that with French grey; its paste is 
good, but the eye only lemon; and it is far from flat, nor are its foot¬ 
stalks long enough. Still it is very ornamental, and its foliage particu¬ 
larly so. 
Mauley's Superintendent {Greeii^. —Of the imitators of Page’s 
Champion, such as Hudson’s Apollo (which is perhaps rather in the 
way of Leigh’s Colonel Taylor), or Lightbody’s Fairy Queen, this is 
the most redoubtable. In fact, if I were a Champion, and standing 
next to a Superintendent (though not of police), I should feel my 
petals rumpled. They are very like one another, with an equally pure 
and brilliant edge; but this has a perfectly flat pip, which Champion 
never has. Its only drawback is in its thin paste, in which it resembles 
Colonel Taylor. Moreover, it seems to be the smallest plant among 
Auriculas. I have two; but they were such bits of things that, not 
being expected to show bloom at all, they were both put into one small 
pot, where they produced each a full truss, with large and bold pips, 
and in that condition went to London to see the world, and to be seen. 
Turner's Volunteer, self. —Yet in the raiser’s hands. Of a colour 
that, in the Dahlia, would be miscalled purple. When first fully open 
it most resembles that of Sim’s Eliza, but differs from it in beingr 
lighter and yet having more of violet. It is a fine large flower, very 
showy, and smooth at the margin; flatters well, has a broad petal, 
and good breadth of paste, which however would be improved by being 
a little thicker. The eye is circular and depressed, but is lemon 
coloured and bleaches early, and the whole flower is short lived. 
Richmond's North Star, self, figured in the January No., and to be 
let out by Mr. Turner. Of a new shade, though not new tint. Two 
shades lighter plum than ]\reteor Flag (for in this latter, as in many 
others, the plum and the violet contend for predominance), or six than 
Hey’s Apollo. It has too many petals, as the very correct drawing 
shows, but they flatten out well, and make a circular frilled pip of 
good size (this frilled appearance is exactly represented in the figure); 
good broad circular paste; eye large but round, and of a good deep 
cowslip that lasts well, with low anthers. 
