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eight (4-inch), and placed in a cold frame or under a handglass till 
established. 
SEED. 
About the second week the seed-pans may be removed to a 
southern aspect. Great attention in shading will be requisite to pre¬ 
serve the young plants : being so near the surface, half-an-hour’s 
powerful sun will destroy them. Keep the soil continually moist; 
and if you find the seed is exposed, so that the young roots appear 
uncovered, sift a little leaf-mould and sand over them, about the 
same quantity as recommended last month. It will save a deal of 
trouble and care, if, as soon as the young plants appear, the boxes or 
pans are removed to a situation where the sun will not reach them 
after nine o’clock in the morning. 
J. Neville. 
DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF PANSIES. 
We now give a descriptive list of Pansies for the guidance of those 
amateurs who have their selections to make. We have confined 
ourselves to the varieties already advertised, and to be had at the 
nurseries. We have left out the showy border sorts, which should 
properly form another class; such as Dazzle Blue Fringe, &c., which, 
though very novel in colour, are deficient in the properties required for 
exhibition. When we can obtain their points of merit in combina¬ 
tion with those they are now deficient in, they will prove most 
valuable in the competition-stands. In giving this list as the 
best fifty Pansies out, we speak only of what we have seen and proved. 
No doubt there are others in different parts of the country that 
would excel some we have named; but they have not come under 
our observation. We saw some beautiful seedlings of 1847 ; but 
this is not the place to speak of them; they will be noticed and 
fully described in the Florist as they appear, and when a second 
season shall have confirmed their merits or have condemned them. 
And here let us add, that no seedling florist’s flower ought to be sent 
out to the public that has not been fairly and fully tested by two 
years growth and exhibition. 
Arethusa (Brown).—Pure white, purple margin; good shape and eye; 
but somewhat uncertain. 
Achilles (Turner).—Gold, with broad puce margin ; stout, and 
smooth at the edge : quite dissimilar. 
Ariadne (Cook).—White ; narrow margin of lilac purple; good eyes, 
and well defined ; rather small, and very bad grower. 
Attraction (Hooper).—Yellow ; narrow margin of purple; good size, 
and very showy early; loses its character as the season advances. 
Berryer (Hooper).—Dark mulberry ; fine shape and substance ; 
smooth on the edges ; lies very flat. 
