say that he grows every year from four to rive thousand seed¬ 
lings, of which rarely more than eight or ten are reserved for 
the notice of the public : nor is he contented with even these 
the first year, as each variety is proved a second year before it 
is sent out, and thus every pains is taken to prevent disap¬ 
pointment. 
For many years Mr. Banks’s seedlings have passed into the 
hands of Messrs. E. G. Henderson and Co., the well-known 
nurserymen of Wellington Load, St. John’s Wood, London. 
Besides the two now figured, they purpose this season sending 
out Edith , Heine Blanche , Marginata , Signora , The Lord War¬ 
den ., Hcmiine, Mars , and Mentor , several of these being white- 
sepaled varieties. To our kind friend Mr. Andrew Henderson 
we are indebted for the following list of, according to his esti¬ 
mation, the best varieties grown:—- 
Antagonist; white tube and sepals; 
scarlet corolla. 
Annie; white tube and sepals; rose- 
coloured corolla. 
Blade Prince; tube and sepals rich 
dark-scarlet; corolla dark-purple. 
Comet; scarlet tube and sepals : fine 
variety. 
Count Cavour; large, open, mauve- 
coloured corolla. 
Lord Flcho; scarlet sepals; violet- 
blue corolla. 
Fairest of the Fair; sepals and tube 
white ; rich violet corolla. 
Garibaldi; light-scarlet sepals; vio¬ 
let-black corolla. 
Guiding Star; white sepals; corolla 
velvet-purple. 
La Crinoline; crimson sepals; violet- 
blue corolla. 
Lord Macaulay ; broad scarlet sepals ; 
deep-violet corolla. 
Prince Imperial; scarlet sepals; co¬ 
rolla violet. 
Perseverance; salmon sepals; rosy- 
lilac corolla. 
Star of the Might; rich carmine se¬ 
pals ; corolla violet-purple. 
Schiller; sepals white; corolla rich 
deep plum. 
Souvenir de Chiswick; rosy-carmine 
sepals; violet-coloured corolla. 
Of the two varieties figured in our Plate, Bianca (fig. 1) has 
a glossy tube; spreading, white, recurved sepals; corolla rich 
lake-crimson; medium habit of growth. Volunteer (fig. 2) has 
a short tube; bright, light, carmine-red sepals, much recurved ; 
corolla large, parachute form, of a lavender-blue tint, suffused 
with violet: a distinct fine flower. 
