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should know best, with the exception of Mr. Edwards. Yet its only- 
fault, when it does come into flower, is the narrowness of its dark 
ground colour. It has a pure and deep green edge, good paste, orange 
tube, and is a large flower, with a fairly rounded edge. It is an 
awkward grower, like a Cabbage Palm, with a long naked stalk. Pot 
it low, to allow of earthing up. 
Grey-edged. 
8. Bone’s Perfection. Every pip of the truss on my solitary plant 
was so distorted by frost, that I should not have mentioned it, but for 
the purpose of saying, that as far as could be judged from this imperfect 
specimen, the colour seemed to be a most attractive purple. 
9. Buckley’s Surprize. A small and very pointed flower, of other¬ 
wise fair average proporties. Colour dark plum, and velvety ; paste 
better than many of higher pretensions; tube only lemon. 
10. Chapman’s Sophia. A fine and large flower, that lasts a long 
time in perfection; of the beautiful colour of Matilda, but too great a 
breadth of it; paste scolloped but of good proportionate width; eye 
sometimes too large, but bright yellow, though it fades; edge fair in 
shape and good in colour; foliage slightly mealed, serrated, strong, and 
handsome. Altogether a most refined and beautiful sort. A worthy 
sister of Maria. For beauty of colour, Chapman’s flowers, must take 
precedence even of Dickson’s. 
11. Dixon’s Lady Jane Grey. An attractive flower, especially in its 
early stages; petal round, edge good in colour and proportion, colour 
brownish plum, paste hardly broad enough, eye sometimes too large, 
but of good orange. It has a tendency to yrnp, but lasts long, and is 
well worth attention. 
12. Hedge’s Britannia. Once considered the most attractive of 
Auriculas, and still a striking flower, even on the exhibition table— 
except in Lancashire. Though a true grey edge, and pointed in petal, 
it greatly resembles Hogg’s Waterloo, its ground colour being a trifle 
lighter of the same tint, which is a rich reddish plum, with a circular 
and good paste. It is very flat, and has a well proportioned orange 
tube ; but the edge being an apple green, mealed into grey, it soon 
becomes sere, though even then it is handsome. It is one of the best 
of trussers, with a stout stem and pip, very docile of training. It has 
a poor constitution and spotted foliage, and is-difficult to keep in health. 
13. Kent’s Queen Victoria. A fair and well proportioned flower, 
with a green grey edge, dark ground colour, good paste and orange 
tube. Nothing striking either way. 
14. Lightbody’s Sir Charles Napier. A large but not coarse flower, 
intermediate in appearance between Conqueror and Mary Ann. It is 
very flat, with scolloped petals, colour nearly black, but inconstant in 
width ; paste round, full, and white ; edge whitish grey. A very 
likely flower to get a premier prize. Its habit is to spend its strength 
in making stock, which must be watched and prevented by those who 
want bloom. 
White edged. 
15. Ashworth’s Regular. A small but good flower among the second 
