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it can never be a show flower. In such cases, and most of Dickson’s 
belong to this description, I think it better to class them with the 
greens, their higher character, as indeed is generally done. Some 
flowers, Dickson’s Duke of Wellington, for instance, I have had with 
all three edgings in different years. In fact, I believe, of the edged 
flowers, very few do not occasionally appear in the class next to them, 
either above or below. Nor are the colours much less subject to 
seasonal variations. Who indeed can ever correctly describe the ground 
colour of an Auricula ? It is the most indescribable thing I know of in 
nature. After which remark I will proceed to describe some. 
Green Edged. 
1. Dickson’s Duke of Cambridge. Called indifferently a green or a 
grey, which it is ; the green, light at best, being impure, and the edge 
beaded with white. It is pointed in petal, more so than Duke of Wel¬ 
lington, which it resembles, though of a darker shade of the same colour, 
and that its proportions are better. It has also narrower and thinner 
paste, but a brighter orange tube, and is altogether a very aristocratic 
looking flower. The foliage is clean, smooth, and healthy ; but it has 
not a strong constitution, and is subject to canker. 
2. Hepworth’s Robin Hood. An effective flower, and when good fit 
for the exhibition table, though with pointed petals and paste, and of 
no great refinement. It is so like Lady Ann Wilbraham that with the 
exception of foliage and habit, a description of the one will serve for the 
other, only that Robin Hood is generally the better propertied, and 
Lady Ann Wilbraham the bolder and more striking flower of the two. 
The edge is pure and of a deep green, but too much splashed into by 
rays of the ground colour, which is a rich dark chestnut. It is flat and 
a good trusser, especially in maiden plants ; and as it is an immoderate 
breeder, there is less difficulty in having these than older plants. 
3. Hogg’s Waterloo. Edge apple green and not quite pure, with 
rounded petals. Colour a trifle lighter than that of Hedge’s Britannia 
(which see). Paste scolloped, and orange tube ; proportions fair. 
4. Moore’s Violet has an impure green edging of not half its proper 
breadth, but of unimpeachable shape. Its ground colour is pure light 
violet, in delicacy and refinement equalled by few. The paste is thin, 
and the tube, never deeper than light lemon, soon fades to a waxy 
whiteness. But though it is too languishingly feminine to carry itself 
upright, it lasts a long time in bloom. 
5. Pollitt’s Highland Laddie. A fine old flower of many petals, 
somewhat pointed. The edge is pure deep green, the colour very dark 
chestnut in a zone of irregular splashings, paste hardly broad enough ; 
bright yellow tube, which does not bleach. 
6. Smith’s Waterloo. A bright and pure green edge, with petals 
large and pointed. Colour very dark chestnut, and well shaped, though 
hardly broad enough; paste so thin as to show through it the lemon 
ground it is sparingly dusted on, but of a good shape if thicker ; cannot 
be used for exhibition, on account of its deficiency in paste. 
7. Yates’ Morris’ Green Hero. A late blooming sort, which 
for some reason to me unaccountable, is abused by most of those who 
