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blotch dark ou the upper petals, edged with an even 
border of white; a good show flower. 
The following are the best of last season. 
A st re a (Hoyle); upper petals dark maroon, blotch 
with orange border, edged with rose; lower petals deep 
pink, spotted with orange. 
Basilisk: (Hoyle); deep crimson, blotch on the upper 
petals, broadly bordered with orange-scarlet; lower 
petals the same colour. 
Enchantress (Foster); dark crimson, blotch edged 
with lighter crimson on the upper petals, lower petals 
rosy-crimson ; a rich looking flower. 
Langonia (Hoyle); upper petals with a rich black 
blotch edged with deep rose, lower petals rich rose. 
Optimum (Foster); upper petals a glossy black, with 
even margin of crimson-scarlet, lower petals bright 
crimson; the gem of the last season. 
Pasha (Beck); upper petals deep maroon centre, and 
a distinct margin of scarlet, lower petals deep mulberry, 
centre of the flower pure white. 
Rosa (Beck); a bright rose-coloured flower, with a 
small dark blotch on the upper petals. 
Zaria (Hoyle); the whole flower is pink or flesh- 
colour, with small spots of orange on the upper petals, 
and a constant spot of maroon on the lower petals. 
NEW CINERARIAS. 
Eva (Loclmer); ground-colour pure white, with a 
narrow margin of purple; centre or disc very dark; a 
good form and stout substance. 
Lady Camoys (Sutton); grpund-colour pure white, 
deep blue tips and blue disc; fine form and habit. 
Novelty (E. and G. Henderson); ground-colour a 
rich damson-purple, with light centre or disc; a large 
novel-coloured flower, rich and showy. 
Picturata (E. and G. Henderson); ground-colour 
clear white tipped with rosy-purple, and a lavender- 
coloured disc ; a good showy variety. 
Scottish Chieftain (Sievewright) ; a fine white j 
ground-colour, tipped with rich violet; disc also a rich 
violet, fine shape, and a good habit; a first-rate flower. ! 
Exquisite (Dobson); pure white edged with rosy- 
crimson, dark disc, a good shape, free bloomer and of a 
dwarf compact habit; excellent for exhibition. 
It is somewhat remarkable, that the last summer has 
produced no self-coloured varieties, excepting the novel- 
coloured one named Novelty. Below are a few selected 
from the best raised in 1852. 
Beauty (Ivery); ground-colour pure white, broadly 
edged with lavender; much superior to Ccrito. 
Brilliant (E. and G. Henderson); ground-colour 
crimson tipped with white ; a good show flower. 
Charles Dickens (E. and G. Henderson); a large, 
purple-puce, self-coloured flower, with a light disc and 
I fine form. 
Kate Kearney (E. and G. Henderson); a large 
flower, of a clear white, with lilac centre; excellent form. 
Loveliness (E. and G. Henderson); bright rosy- 
crimson, with a circle of white round a carmine disc ; 
a distinct variety. 
Loveliness (A. Henderson and Co.); ground-colour 
pure white, edged with violet-purple, dark disc; fine 
form and distinct. 
Prince Arthur (E. and G. Henderson); bright 
crimson self, with fine broad petals; very showy. 
Prince oe Blues (Ivery) ; very dark blue self, with 
dark disc; large flower, and A r ery showy. 
Tyrian Prince (Cole and Sharp); the richest of blues, 
a self-coloured flower, with dark disc; flat flower, fine 
form, and dwarf habit. 
T. Aepleby. 
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THE PEACH. 
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Plants are often pronounced hardy, and treated as 
such, with but little claim to that title, and as long as 
they continue to exist under favourable circumstances, 
their claims to that title is but little doubted; but, by- 
and-by, they either succumb to the hardships of their 
situation, or no longer flourish under a treatment so 
much below the requirements of their constitution. 
Still, having once been received as “hardy,” they con¬ 
tinue to be so regarded; and those misfortunes which 
almost annihilate them are often laid to other causes 
than the tender constitution of the plant in question. 
Is not, in a certain degree, this the treatment met with 
by the Peach? Is it not often denied that protection 
and kind assistance, in the shape of good situation, &c., 
which our great-grandfathers were more liberal in 
granting it? This system of non cultivation has, I | 
j think, been carried too far with the Peach ; and because, i 
now and then, cases of successful culture present them- j 
: selves wherein little care is bestowed, it is too generally j 
set down that none whatever is required. Now this j 
! is wrong; for the Peach, coming from the warm and 
1 sunny regions of central Asia, can hardly be expected 
to mature its wood and embryo buds in our summer to 
an equal extent to what it does in its own native clime. 
Still less has it a chance to do so, when, instead of 
having a southern aspect, and dry well-drained situa¬ 
tion, it has an east or west one, with a cold, wet, 
ungenial soil to grow in. No improved method of 
pruning nor top culture can atone for this; but there 
are cases, also, wherein a favourable situation is lost to 
the plant by other judicious assistance also being denied 
it; but, to consider this, let us for a moment glance at 
the treatment it received from our ancestors, and the 
light in which they viewed it. 
It is well known that our worthy fore elders regarded 
this tree as a much more delicate production than we 
do, they justly considering, that because it inhabited the 
same country as the Melon, and other plants requiring 
all the artificial heat to grow them well that our means 
can command, they took more than ordinary pains to 
secure this one more of the good things of culture than 
we allow them now. A Peach was rarely planted any¬ 
where save in situations where it was likely to flourish 
and do well; few or none were to be seen on other 
than full south aspects: besides which, due protection 
was granted them while in bloom, and the appearances 
of insect or disease always met at the threshold — a 
good Peach, or crop of ditto, being in that day as much 
an object of pride as a well-grown potted plant of the 
most fashionable sort is at the present one; conse¬ 
quently, the Peach was what it ought to be, “ a well- 
managed tree;” but I believe I have not told all the 
advantages that it enjoyed in those good old times, and 
which it is sometimes honoured with now. 
M any of tlip walls on which Peach trees were trained were 
hollow, or lined, and heated moderately at certain times. 
This beneficial aid to their well-being has been abandoned 
too hastily; for in those places where it is adopted its 
beneficial effects are seen on the trees so treated; and 
when it is known that in the north of England as good 
fruit and better trees are produced than in the south of 
it, solely by the aid of that assistance, it becomes a 
matter of importance how far that useful auxiliary 
would repay the cost of erecting elsewhere. In fact, 
the cost in the build of such a wall is very little more 
than that of a common one; but the expense of firing 
is an item of some amount: however, to those who 
deem the luxury of a good Peach and the pleasure of 
seeing good healthy trees a desideratum worth sacri 
ficing something for, I may with safety affirm, that 
nothing whatever is more likely to conduce to that 
