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rates. First-rate whites are more rare than even green edges, being 
confined to a very small number in either class. Taylor’s Glory is 
hitherto unapproached; and when you have added his Favourite, 
Hepworth’s True Briton, and Campbell’s Robert Burns in its best form, 
such as I have it now before me, you will have named all that I know 
of and are out. Smith’s Lady Sale appears likely to be added to them, 
but that I believe is not yet let out. I only know it from a pip sent 
me by Mr. Lightbody. After those I have named come Model, 
Countess of Dunmore, and some others, and among them Regular will 
take its place, and rather a high one. It is not quite circular in edge 
or paste, but well proportioned, and very flat. Colour a dark chestnut. 
Foliage only slightly mealed. 
16. Clegg’s Crucifix. A mealy-leaved, large, bold and coarse flower, 
which would be flat but that it curls at the edge, which is fairly circular. 
The colours would be well contrasted, but that its nearly black ground 
is dotted with meal. It has a lemon tube that bleaches before the pip 
becomes flat. 
17. Gairn’s Model. Not a large flower, but circular and flat, with 
good paste, and rich chestnut brown colour ; flowers in good time. A 
slight improvement on Lee’s Earl Grosvenor, which it resembles. 
Foliage mealy. 
18. Lightbody’s Countess of Dunmore. A moderately good white 
edged flower, admissible to the exhibition table. The foliage is mealy 
and the plant healthy; the pip has a rounded edge and the margin 
fairly whitened. The colour is dark chestnut, impure from being 
splashed into with meal. It is a very free flowerer, and carries a good 
truss. The tube is orange. 
19. Taylor’s Favourite. The handsomest plant and one of the best 
flowers of the class. Foliage silvery green, deeply serrated, and 
slightly mealed. The pip is pointed, and the edge perhaps hardly white 
enough; colour very even, almost too much so, dark velvety maroon, 
paste excellent and tube orange. Carries a good truss of nine on a 
long and stiff stem. 
20. Taylor’s Glory. The unrivalled queen of white edges. Colour a 
lovely light violet, paste excellent, edge all that can be desired. A good 
trusser with mealy foliage, not very robust. It is one of the tenderest 
against the north-east winds of spring. 
21. Taylor’s Incomparable. Foliage scantily mealed, serrated, and 
robust; petal very pointed and angular, edging quite insufficient, 
colour dark plum or purple, with a dash of slate in it; paste of a good 
shape, but too narrow. 
Seles. 
22. Barker’s Nonsuch. A pretty changeable violet Plum with well¬ 
shaped pip that flattens well. Paste good but not circular. Not a first- 
rate flower. 
23. Chapman’s Squire Smith. Another of Chapman’s successful 
efforts as a raiser. Foliage Pear-shaped, bright green, peculiarly glossy 
and healthy looking. Colour a maroon, two shades lighter than that of 
Faulkner’s Hannibal and the whole appearance very like it, but still 
