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on tlie firm for these flowers, as intense as that on the 
Glasgow hanks. ' I never saw people so thoroughly 
daft about new flowers before. What between cus¬ 
tomers, popping-in visitors, and the heads of the firm 
themselves, together with the liberality of the Stoke 
Newingtonians, I learned so much, that I could go 
i about the country lecturing on Chrysanthemums for 
| the whole winter. 
The new idea is to give the best kinds in all the 
shades and colours, beginning with white; then light 
i blush, dark blush, deep rose, Indian red, crimson, 
and purplish-plum; then rise through rosy yellow, 
brownish-yellow, golden yellow, to clear light yellow. 
i These are all the shades in this family, or the nearest 
to them for my purpose. I shall give a separate list 
of new ones, and of special kinds ; therefore new and 
old come in here on equal footing. 
Best Whites. Lucidum, Vesta, Louisa, Madame 
Leo Donous, and Madame Doanage. 
Light Blusii. Alfred Salter, Hermione, Queen of 
England, Beauty, and Duke. 
Deeper Blush. Aristee, L’Admirable, Nonpareil, 
and Miss Kate. 
Deep Rose (a rich class). Versailles, Defiance, 
Leon Leguay, Themis, Baron de Scalebert, Alix, alias 
Voltaire, and Augustine rosea. 
Nearest Crimson. Progne, Pius the Seventh, and 
| Comte de Morney. The last two have lighter centres. 
Purplish (a scarce colour). Albin and Beaute du 
Nord. 
Indian Red. Pio Nono, Auguste Mie, l’Emir, and 
Chris tophe Colomb. 
Rosy Yellow (that is, the face or front of the 
petals is rosy, and the back yellow. Such flowers 
when dressed look entirely yellow). Dupont de 
l’Eure, Lisias, and Two-coloured-incurved. 
Brownish Yellow (these are brown inside, but 
yellow when dressed). Cassy, Cardinal (fine), Poudre 
d’Or, Ruth, and Le Bourreau. The last a new style, 
chiefly brown and tipped with yellow. 
Deep, or Golden Yellow (a rich class). Golden 
Cluster, one of the oldest; Golden Queen of England, 
a sport from the Queen of England, one of the best 
blush flowers. (This flower is the same in every re¬ 
spect save colour). Annie Salter, Chevalier Duanage, 
; and Cloth of Gold. 
Clear Light Yellow. Etoile Polaire, Plutus, Cre- 
billon, and M. Descliamps (fine). 
Best Large Anemone-flowered. Louise, peach ; 
King of Anemones, crimson-like ; Nancy de Sermet, 
S Eleur de Maria, both white; Gluck, yellow ; Mar¬ 
garet of York, canary ; George Sand, brownish yellow ; 
Madame Gorderau, blush and sulphur ; and Marguerite 
cVAnjou, very light yellow. 
POMPONES. 
White. Turns Eburnea, Argentina, Model, and 
Marabout, the latter very fine this season. 
Blush White. Madame Eould, exquisite; Cedo 
Nulli; Rosinante, large hybrid; Bijou de l’Horticul- 
ture; and Graziella. 
Deep Blush, out of doors; Pale, indoors. Sur¬ 
prise, Madame Rousselon, President, Decaisne, and 
Ariadne, a fine blush Anemone kind, with a deep yellow 
centre. 
Pale Rose (a scarce colour). Madame Maillard, 
Adonis, Dureflet, Elise Miellez, and Pearl du Prado, 
which might be called a rose-coloured President 
Decaisne. 
Dark, or Deep Rose. Ceres, very stiff; Cleobis, 
very dwarf; and Daphnis. 
Dark Crimson (or nearest to crimson). Requiqui, 
Grand Sultan, and Eleurette, a very double kind. 
Dark Red. Bob, BriLliant, Scarlet Gem, and Dr. 
Bois Duval. 
Reddish Brown. La Pactole ; Chedeville, very 
dwarf; Clarissa, tall; and Sainte Thais. 
Spanish Brown. Autumna ; Aurora Borealis ; La 
Rousse, dwarf; Etoile de Venus, lighter than the 
others. 
Golden, or Deep Yellow. La Vogue; Francis 
the First, fine; Triomphe; Le Jongleur, a dwarf La 
Vogue, as it were; Cybele, tall, and the showiest 
bedder in this colour. 
Clear Light Yellow. Drin Drin, not Drine; 
General Canrobert, very fine ; Justine Tessier, lighter; 
Nelly, lighter ; and Aigle d’Or, also lighter. 
There are several names in the arrangement above 
that have not yet. been catalogued, the flowers having 
only been seen this season, after the catalogues were 
printed. 
The best new kinds and seedlings, or those which 
attracted my notice most in looking over the general 
collection, are the following. They are also in the 
above classifications:— 
U Admirable, mottled rose. 
.Progne (pronounced Pro-ne), the highest coloured , 
sort yet obtained, coming very near the colour of 
Geant des Batailles Rose, a splendid thing, but not a 
florist’s flower. It is of the medium size. 
Madame Leo Dounous ( Duno ), ivory white, incurved, 
shaped like the best form of China Aster, without the 
guard petals. 
Augustine Pozi,er , pale rose. 
Madame Doomage, clear, snowy white. 
Louis, very large, dark peach-coloured Anemone. 
Louise, pure white. 
Constantine, brownish yellow. 
Sixte Quint [Kang), chestnut red, after Pio Nono's 
colour. 
Baron de Scalebert {SJcaleber), mottled rose, after 
Christine. 
diamond, yellow and orange; a great improvement 
on Virgil. 
Aimee Feriere. The finest Chrysanthemum ever 
yet raised; a pure pearly white, incurved flower; every 
petal is uniformly tipped with crimson. A medium¬ 
sized flower after the style of Hermione and Trilby ; 
the tips diffuse a blush-like shade on the white. 
Yellow Queen of England. The best yellow yet 
raised, certain. 
The most remarkable of the new Pompones are— 
Polycarjo, gold and brown, after Mignonette, but 
double its size. 
Donna Alba Gonzales, deep golden yellow ; very 
free bloomer ; good, stiff, close habit, and the very best 
of this colour. 
Ida, a fine canary yellow ; large, handsome flower, 
and excellent close habit. 
Cieile, a very early blush white. 
Phantase, another early blush, deeper than the last. 
Madame Fould. This is, without an exception, the 
best Pompone yet raised ; a delicate, pale, blush white 
flower, of exquisite shape for a lady’s eye, and of mar¬ 
vellous substance. 
Salomon, a fine rosy carmine. 
Pompone d’ Or, golden yellow, the finest liliput. 
Madame Andry (not M. Andre), pale peach and 
yellow, fine. 
Algerie, nearly white, and very free bloomer. 
Elise Caute, rose, with a white centre, the best of 
the strain of Elise Miellez. 
New Anemone-flowered Pompones. This class 
is very rich in superior new kinds. 
Madame Carnac, lilac, and a clear yellow centre; 
stiff, close habit. 
Madame Molixie, deep rose ; yellow centre. 
