Plate 130 . 
VARIETIES OE EANCY PANSIES. 
The advance which we long ago predicted would be made 
in the Fancy Pansy has been more than realized, and we do 
not hesitate to express our conviction that in a few years it will 
have obtained, not only increased popularity, but also a recog¬ 
nized place amongst florists’ flowers, attaining, as we believe it 
will, those required properties, without which a florist, in the 
true sense of the term, will not admit any flower amongst his 
favourites. 
Some twelve years since, M. Miellez, of Lille, and Messrs. 
Salter, of Hammersmith, and Downie, of Edinburgh, com¬ 
menced their cultivation, and may be considered as the pioneers 
in the vast improvement that has taken place in them; al¬ 
though Messrs. E. G. Henderson and Son, of the Wellington 
Nursery, St. John’s Wood, ought to have the credit of deter¬ 
mining to bring them prominently before the public. London 
air, however, proving prejudicial to their growth, they induced 
Mr. William Dean, of Shipley, near Bradford, to cultivate them 
for them. A pupil of Mr. Turner of Slough, he soon found 
that much was to be done with them: some of the results he 
obtained being the four very beautiful varieties figured in our 
plate; and, although first ushered into notice by him as 
Belgian Pansies, they are in truth of English blood, and will 
be known in future as Fancy Pansies. 
Mr. Dean, to whom we are indebted for the opportunity of 
figuring them, says: “ I venture to predict for the Fancy Pansy 
an immense popularity with ladies, for it admits of unlimited 
variety, and all, more or less, beautiful. Those who have not 
seen to what perfection they are brought regard them with 
considerable doubt; but notwithstanding all doubts, it will 
