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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
The White varieties necessarily admit of even less variation. The most 
beautiful variety I have ever seen, and one that cannot be too highly com¬ 
mended for its superb quality, is named Goldfinder. The flowers are very 
large, globular, and pure in colour, and have rich dark orange stamens. 
Caroline Chisholm and Mrs. Beecher Stowe are undoubtedly the same. It 
is a dwarf-growing free-blooming kind, very useful for pots. Grand Con- 
querant is one of the most novel white flowers I have yet met with ; pure 
white, edged with citron, and extremely pretty, as well as free-blooming. 
Mont Blanc has large and bold pure white flowers, and though classed with 
the White varieties, the insides of the blooms are faintly pencilled with lilac. 
It is a robust-growing kind, useful for out-door work. To these add 
Mammoth, a large white flower, changing to cream; Calypso, another 
creamy white, and Queen Victoria, and the list is complete. A reserve list 
can be formed of the following varieties :—Matliilde, Grand Vainqueur, 
Porpus, Isabella, Marie Antoinette, and Bride of Abydos. 
Of Edged flowers—a very small division—the variety named Duke of 
Cumberland, previously described, can be regarded as one ; the oldNe Plus 
Ultra, violet with white edge, a large, fine, and showy flower, is another; 
and Lord Wellington, deep violet, edged with white, a small but pretty 
flower, complete the list of kinds I have seen. I find Ne Plus Ultra to be 
very effective out of doors, and it has the additional recommendation of 
being very cheap. 
Lastly comes that somewhat numerous group including the Blue and 
Purple varieties. Among these there are some beautiful kinds, large in size 
and deep in colour. I find the darkest coloured of the whole group—not 
simply the darkest on first expanding, but the darkest throughout the bloom¬ 
ing period—to be a variety with a rather small bulb, named Sir John 
Franklin. It is of a rich dark glossy purple, and it did remarkably well 
with me out of doors. David Rizzio, often termed the darkest blue, is paler 
in colour than the foregoing; and Prince Albert is paler still; yet both are 
fine bold flowers. Prince of Wales is identical in every respect with Prince 
Albert; and Vulcan, a very large pale violet flower, is the same as Othello. 
Lilaceus superbus is a somewhat distinct kind, with a broad flake of a lilac 
tint up each petal. These are all the distinct shades of blue, so-called, I 
could possibly light upon. I add a supplementary list of the following kinds 
which came under my notice, premising that they are well represented by 
the foregoing:—Baron von Brunnow, Brunei, Lamplighter, General 
Pelissier, Charles Dickens, Jupiter, Von Schiller, Sir R. Peel, Loveliness, 
and La Simplicity 
I am compelled to admit that, though amongst the varieties in these 
reserve lists of the several divisions of colour there were many points of 
resemblance, yet from a close and daily inspection one seemed to be able to 
detect some small and distinct traits of character, either in the size or shape, 
or in the purity or depth of the colour of the flowers, in the height they 
grew, in the time of flowering, and even in the form, the colour, and the 
greater or less prominence of the stamens. I am also led to admit that we 
ought not hastily to charge the Dutch growers with sending us professedly 
new varieties, that are really repetitions of what we already possess. I am 
disposed to think they select them seedlings with considerable care, and for 
some novelty or distinctness possessed by them. There will be an inevitable 
sameness, even when coupled with the largest quantum of novelty, but then 
these new kinds are rarely priced at anything like an exorbitant rate, as it 
