January 2 ii . 
COUNTRY GENTLEMAN’S COMPANION. 
out of so many good kinds which are })laced as first-rate. 
Every one in my second list would bo Ihouglit first-rate 
in some parts of tlie country, and some of my first-rate 
kinds may not be thought so liighly of by those wlio 
grow them solely for exhibitions; but having laid my 
models before you, all tliat is necessary for mo to add, 
is that the whole are arranged on the footing of private 
collections for the conservatory, and for cut-blooms in 
the drawing-room. A is placed before the incurved 
flowers in these lists, beginning with the very best 
kinds:— 
■^'Aiinie Salter, well-known to be one of the best 
yellows. 
Aiujuste Mie, a splendid red flower, tipped with gold. 
Bossiict, a rosy-red, or carmine. 
■■-Chevalier Damage, a light golden-yellow. 
Conspieiia, a fine mottled rose. 
■■•Dupont lie TEure, orange and carmine; very fine. 
General Marcean, a large buff. 
^•Herniione, blush, tipped with purple; a model. 
■'ll-Leon Leguag, lilac. 
■■iLe Frophete, a light golden, or fawn colour. 
Lajhuis, orange, or reddish-orange. 
■■ Pio Nono, Indian-red, tipped with gold. 
Prince Jerome, straw-colour and brown tips. 
i^iQueen of England, light blush. 
* Holla, lilac, with a silvery tint. 
Stafford, rosy-purple. 
* Sgdenham, carmi ue-red. 
^liiemis, a beautiful rose. 
Here, then, is the cream of the race, and if you add 
Alfred Salter, a beautiful lilac flower of the same shape 
and size as his Queen of England, which will cost 10s. (Jd. 
the plant next spring, and the only three that are first- 
rate among Anemone-flowered ones, namedy— 
Fleur de Marie, white ; 
Oluelc, golden-yellow; and 
Nancy de Sennet, another white, the whole will not 
complete two dozen, which is the smallest number of 
the very choicest selection that could be made. A little 
more than an equal number would include all the second 
best kinds according to this standard, if we keep out the 
Anemone-flowered and the newest, which were sold out 
last June, for the first time, as follows :— 
^•Alhin, crimson, or all but crimson. 
■'lArigena, amaranth, or dark red. 
'■'iCassy, orange, tipped, or shaded lose. 
Comte de liantzau, nearly crimson. 
■■'-Defance, white. 
■i-Eiise Pele, white. 
Fortune, rosy-red. 
Menny Find, rosy-sulphur. 
L'Ange Oardien, white. 
>'.iL'Emir, light reddish-crimson. 
L'Ingot it Or, golden-yellow. 
Madame Boucharlet, white. 
Madam Comerson, an old, small, crimson flow'er, tipped 
with golden-yellow'. 
Madame Lebols, pink and yellow. 
■■■Madame Poggi, chesnut-crimson ; an old favourite. 
•!'JA<rs, light red. 
Miss Kate, light lilac. 
■i-Xell QWynne, rosy-peach. 
Phare de Messine, reddish-chesnut. 
■■--Pilot, deep rose ; a general favourite. 
■■rPlutus, a golden-yellow. 
Poudre d'or, reddish-orange. 
■••Princess Marie, rose. 
-^Rosa Mystica. 
'■■Trilby, blush. 
- Versailles Defiance, rosy-lilac, ! 
Vortigern, chesnut-red. j 
In many large collections in the country, all the above I 
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would he considered first-rate, and the following the 
next best:— 
■■•Beauty, peach-blush. 
Dixio, V i ol et-carm i u e. 
I'lCampestroni, deep rose. 
Christine, peach, or deep blush. 
^Christopher Colomb, reddish-violet. 
-iiDuke, hlush. 
Golden Cluster, yellow. 
■■•Goliah, white. 
*King, a fine light peach. 
t-Lucidium, white ; one of the earliest. 
Nonpareil, rosy-lilac. 
Phidias (new), rose-blush. 
Racine, gold, with brown tips. 
Vesta, white ; a general favourite. 
|'■|^Varden, orange. 
The following are the best second-rate of the Anemone- 
flowered kinds:— 
Astre dll Jour, black. 
Astre dll Matin, lilacy-peach. 
Diamant do Versailles, white and rose centre. 
Eclipse, sidphur. 
Madame Gorderaii, another sulphur. 
Marguerite iVAnjou, nankeen. 
Marguerite de Versailles, blush. 
Marguerite de York, two shades yellow. 
Reive Marguerite, white and rose. 
Rose Marguerite, clear rose, and white centre. 
Titan, golden-yellow. 
There is only one thing wanting to make these lists 
quite complete, that is, to give the habit of the plants, 
the earliest, next earliest, and late kinds; but that I 
I cannot do, because one-third of the newer kinds have 
appeared since I left off growing them in 1851, and of 
them I had only seen cut flowers till I saw them in 
Mr. Salter’s nursery last autumn. 
I shall, probably, grow a few of the best new kinds 
next year, and be thus able to furnish “ the one thing ” 
which is now wanting. April or May, or sooner in the 
spring, is the best time to buy these plants; and I 
would not top or stop new, rare kinds, as we do with 
old kinds; I would rather wait till each top would make 
a cutting, and for one bought-in plant in the spring, I 
would have three, four, or five plants, for blooming by the 
end of the season ; so thatjmy plants would cost me, in the 
end, no more than the very old kinds which are now out 
of date. Although I said that they would bear the heat 
of the stove in winter, provided they were not cut down 
in the autumn, that degree of heat is not at all necessary 
for them. Cold frames woidd secure them through the 
winter, so as to come into flower during the spring; and 
although I have not tried that plan myself, I have no 
doubt but that, with a good greenhouse, I could bloom a 
whole collection of them in April and May, and get 
many of them to ripen seeds, and produce superior 
varieties. 
If I were as young as some of our leading stars, I would 
undertake to get them to sport from grafted plants, like 
the Chinese gardeners. For private use, I would not 
grow them in pots at all during the summer, except the 
cuttings or layers made between the middle of July and 
the same time in August. During the first half of 
September, I would root the plants to flower in tlie 
spring, and chiefly from layers, with no suckers to them. 
As soon in October as these showed flower-buds, I would 
cut them back a little, to get rid of all the autumn flower- 
buds, and no more ; I would then give them a shift, and 
a close frame treatment, to break all their buds; then 
rest them for the winter. D. Bkaxon. 
