zine with regard to the culture of this favourite flower, that we 
deem it hardly necessary to add anything more on the subject. 
We happened this day to receive a visit from the gardener of a 
friend at Tunbridge Wells,'* who detailed to us a method of 
treatment which he has found to be entirely successful, but 
which completely alters the plan adopted by growers; we hope 
to see ere long the results of it, about which he was very 
sanguine, and shall at some future time be enabled to refer 
to it. 
In order to show the varieties to advantage, and to figure a 
larger number, we have preferred giving one pip of each to 
crowding the plate. In Celeste (Fig. I) we have an entirely 
new shade of colour, the lower petals being of a rich orange- 
scarlet, the upper petals deep maroon, with a bright scarlet 
margin and a clear white centre; altogether a very novel and 
striking flower. Mrs. Hoyle (Fig. 2) is a fine light flower, the 
lower petals violet-rose, upper petals same colour, shaded with 
red, with a small black spot, and it is a peculiarly soft-looking 
flower of good substance and fine quality; both of these received 
first-class certificates from the Royal Botanic Society. Princetta 
(Fig. 3) is a very beautiful dark flower, the upper petals glossy- 
black, with a fiery-crimson margin, lower petals heavily pen¬ 
cilled with dark-red and rose, centre of the flower clear white, 
very smooth and beautiful, and altogether a most pleasing 
flower; in fact, we do not consider Mr. Hoyle to have overrated 
these flowers when he said they were among the best he has 
ever raised. 
* The Bev. George Goldney, an enthusiastic florist. 
