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In addition to the above, the following of more recent introduction 
are fine, Madame Pereire, Madame Velmorin, Peine Victoria and Peine 
Marie de Najdes (two magnificent varieties, and should be in every col¬ 
lection, but are yet expensive) ; Ceres is a fine light variety, Pluton, a 
splendid scarlet, with broad white bands up the centre of the petals, evi¬ 
dently a cross from some of the ramosus family. Rubens , Dr. Lindley, 
and James Watt are also good. 
In the list enumerated are none but kinds within the reach of any or¬ 
dinary grower. LePoid’Oude is the best yellow, but very scarce. The 
following I have found intractable, having tried them two seasons, and 
can do nothing with them in pots :— 
Brenclileyensis. 
Bertha Rabourdin. 
Adonis. 
Amabilis. 
Daphne. 
Due de Malakoff. 
Emma. 
Mois. 
Oracle. 
All these do well out-of-doors, and my ill success may arise from neg¬ 
lect in cultivation, excepting with the two first-named, and these being 
such fine varieties, I used every endeavour to bloom them well, but al¬ 
ways failed. 
As soon as the last flower on the spike is faded, I withhold water gra¬ 
dually, and in a week or ten days shake the bulbs out and dry them by 
full exposure to sun and air, and store them away in a cool dry place, 
until next planting-time; if required to seed, as they do freely, they 
should have water as usual until the pods begin to turn brown at the 
points, when water may be gradually withheld. W. H. 
CATALOGUES. 
B. S. Williams’s Catalogue of choice and selected Floiver, Vegetable, and 
Agricultural Seeds, etc. Paradise Nursery , Seven Sisters Road, Hol- 
loway, N. 
James Carter and Co’s Gardener’s and Farmer’s Vade Me cum for 1863. 
237, High Holborn. 
Barr and Sugden’s Illustrated Guide to the Flower Garden. 1863. 12, 
King Street, Covent Garden. 
William Cutbush and Son’s Catalogue of Floiver-Seeds, etc. Highgate. 
E. G. Henderson and Son’s Seed Catalogue. 1863. 
Downie, Laird, and Laing’s Catalogue of choice Florist’s Flowers, etc. 
Edinburgh and Stansiead Park, Forest Hill. 
Another batch of well-prepared Catalogues, fully bearing out the ob¬ 
servations made by us, in our last number, on the diligence with which 
they are now got up, and evidencing the universal interest taken in all 
