THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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it after it pushed, and now, though it is growing, there 
is no appearance of its blooming much; though I was 
given to understand it would be almost always in 
bloom.'’ If you wished for a neat, compact plant, to 
bloom in summer and autumn, either in pots or a bed, 
you acted quite right. If your object was to have, as 
nearly as possible, a continuous supply of bloom on the 
same plant, you did not do as we would advise and 
practice. We should have no general pruning, but 
| merely remove, now and then, a long, naked shoot, and 
take the points out of some others. J have several large 
plants thus treated that are generally well supplied with 
bloom nearly tbe whole year. These have been in the 
same pots five or six years. A little of the surface-soil 
is picked out every spring, and fresh compost added, and 
I manure-waterings now and then applied. For several 
j Sundays I have seen, in a window, a nice little specimen 
! of this charming Unique, trained flat, trellis style, and 
well studded with flowers, that had been brought into 
shape and beauty by the taste and industry of a young 
lady amateur. Anxious were the looks it received from 
hundreds passing to church and chapel. Its appearance 
at once told it had been treated in tbe way here 
described. Cynics, there might be, who would have 
wished such an attractive object shrouded from sight 
on such a day; but if I have any anxiety at all, it is that 
the taste for, and love of, the beautiful, may become more 
and more the attendant handmaid of all that is soul- 
elevating and pure. E. Fish. 
NEW FLORISTS’ FLOWERS. 
(Con United fporn page 58.) 
PANSIES. 
Fi.or.JsTs have brought this charming flower to such 
a degree of perfection, that it is extremely difficult to 
produce superior varieties to such as we already have in 
cultivation. I have heard, however, that Mr. Turner, 
of Slough, exhibited one called “ Memnon,” at the last 
meeting of the National Society, that was so good as to 
call forth the admiration of the visitors. The judges 
gave it a certificate of merit, but desired it to be sent 
again, as they had no doubt it would improve so much 
as to deserve a first-class certificate. 1 shall reserve a 
description of it tili that takes place. The following 
are proved varieties of superior properties. 
Class 1. Sells. — Blanche ; a large white flower, even 
at the edges, and flat in form. 
Fanny Irby ; purple in general colour, shading to¬ 
wards the centre into a clear blue, and the eye nearly 
black ; a rich-coloured, finely-formed flower. 
Flower of tlic Day; a large, rich, dark flower, of 
the finest form. 
Nonsuch; rich, dark flower, with a large black eye; 
size medium ; form and substance excellent. 
St. Andrew; a dark flower, very glossy; good form 
and substance ; medium size. 
Class 2. The flowers in this class have gold, yellow, 
sulphur or straw-coloured grounds, with margins of 
maroon, crimson, chocolate, bronze, pure and inter¬ 
mediate shades. N.B. The first-mentioned colour is the 
ground, and the other the margin. 
Brutus; yellow, with narrow edge of bronze; a fine 
show flower. 
Favourite; yellow and dark maroon, the latter broad; 
first-rate form and substance. 
Gliffe; yellow and rich maroon, with broad margin; 
very fine. 
Hero; yellow and bronze-red; a stout flower, with 
broad margin; a good show variety. 
Joe Miller ; yellow; a distinct variety, remarkable for 
the margin, a bronzy-red, running round the lower as 
well as tbe upper petals. This is not a common case ; 
fine form and substance; margins narrow. 
Marion; straw and purple; a delicately-coloured 
flower, of a large size and good form ; the purple edge 
is very broad. 
Sir John Gathcart ; deep gold-yellow top petals, lower 
petals crimson, margined with fiery bronze; an extra 
fine flower, of good substance. The belt is broad. 
Class 3. This class has the ground colour pure white, 
or nearly so, with margins of purple, lilac, blue, mul¬ 
berry, and intermediate shades. 
Criterion ; the top petals of this fine variety are 
purple, the lower pure white with narrow purple margins 
Marchioness of Bath; blue top petals, white lower, 
with light blue eye, very large, especially on the three 
lower petals; substance and form extra line. 
National ; light purple top petals, lower petals pure 
white with margins of the same colour as the upper 
petals, eye distinct and well defined; medium size; 
substance and form almost perfect. 
Royal Visit; top petals of the richest dark purple, 
white very clear, margin broad and well-defined; a 
flower of the best properties. 
Mr. John Salter, of the Versailles Nursery, Hammer¬ 
smith, has, in addition to the above classes, introduced 
a fourth class, which he calls Fancy Pansies. ’These 
are remarkable on account of their fantastic colours, 
which are splashed, striped, and mottled in a most 
extraordinary manner. The varieties, when first ex¬ 
hibited, three years ago, were of tbe worst form, but in 
that particular they have been much improved, and 
will now vie with the best of the other classes. They 
are a great addition to this distinct and attractive class, 
which promises to be as popular as the Fancies of 
Dahlias or any other flower. 
1 select a few of the best. 
Boldero; rose and yellow, striped with violet. 
Crerulea Alba; lilac-blue, striped with white. 
Citronia ; pale lemon, striped with purple. 
Hecla; light, spotted with red, centre yellow. 
Hippo ; bronzy-yellow, spotted with purple. 
Phccnix ; blue, spotted with white. 
Versicolor; rose and orange, striped with purple and 
crimson. 
NEW CALCEOLARIAS. 
This flower is divided into two sections, 1st Herba¬ 
ceous, 2nd Shrubby. The former is so difficult to 
preserve alive after the first year, that it is far better for 
the amateur to procure from some respectable seedsman 
a packet of seed annually; sow it in May, and keep the 
plants through the winter on a shelf in the green¬ 
house near the glass, rather than buy named sorts. 
Shrubby Calceolarias are improving in size and form, 
and may be easily increased by cuttings in July or 
August, kept in small pots through the winter, and 
potted into blooming pots early in the spring. The 
following are worthy of cultivation either in pots for the 
greenhouse or for bedding in the flower-garden. 
Crimson King ; a deep crimson-coloured flower, of 
good form ; a great improvement on Sultan. 
Model; a decidedly shrubby variety, rich brown, large 
spot, shading off to orange-yellow at the edges; large 
flowers, large truss, and good form, suitable either for a 
pot or the flower-bed; a hybrid between Kentish Hero 
and Sultan. 
Magnificent; the pouch of this variety is of the richest 
crimson, beautifully contrasted with its clear yellow 
hood ; a beautiful and remarkable variety. 
OLDER VARIETIES. 
Biilliant; rich, shining, bronzy-red. 
Candidate ; fine orange colour, large trusses. 
