there has not been this tendency to improvement, nay, it rather 
strikes us that those now shown are not at all equal to what 
they were a few years ago. It may be because some of the 
most successful exhibitors of those days do not now exhibit, but 
still the fact appears so to us. 
Of the varieties now figured, all raised by Messrs. F. and A. 
Smith, of Dulwich, Flower of the Bay (Fig. 1) is a rich violet 
plum, with broad band of pure white surrounding a darkish 
disk,—fine form and substance, and quite new in colour. Fem- 
brandt (Fig. 2) is an intensely deep mulberry-crimson, with a 
white ring surrounding a very dark disk,—a large flower of fine 
form, great substance, and novelty of colour. Eliza (Fig. 3) is 
a very large smooth flower, deep rosy-crimson, with very broad 
band of pure white surrounding a blackish disk, very dwarf, and 
of compact habit. 
