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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, March 30, 1858. 
well-formed, average depth, and a fine centre; obtained 
several first-class certificates ; three to four feet. 
9. Mr. Gilbert (Legge), fine dark maroon, high centre 
and constant; four feet. 
10. Safranot (Barnes), bright golden buff, petals very stout 
and finely cupped ; three to four feet. 
11. Sir Joseph Paxton (Dodds) golden yellow, slightly 
tipped with reddish purple ; a large handsome flower, finely 
cupped, and even in outline; has obtained first-class certi¬ 
ficates on the only two occasions when exhibited; four feet. 
12. Venus (Rawlings), blush white, tinged slightly with 
peach; delicate and beautiful; obtained several first-class 
honours; three feet. (10$. 6d. each.) 
Selected Older Varieties. 
Amazon (G. Holmes), white, tipped heavily with crimson; 
| three to four feet. 
Beauty of Versailles (Salter), dark purple; fine; three 
feet. 
Bessie (Turner), deep bright yellow; three feet. 
Cardinal (Skynner), bright scarlet; fine form; three feet. 
Climax (Harrison), fine rich crimson ; three feet. 
Colonel Wyndham (Turner), deep rose, with small bronze 
tip; three feet. 
Duchess of Beaufort (Bush), blush white, tipped with dark 
purple ; full and constant; four feet. 
Duchess of Wellington (Turner), pale cream; full and 
constant; three feet. 
Fanny Dodds (Dodds), pure white ; constant; three feet. 
Fearless (Barnes), still the best lilac; five feet. 
Grand Sultan (Turner), dark maroon; full size and fine 
form ; three feet. 
Lady Folkestone (Keynes), yellow, tipped with purple; 
fine form; four feet. 
Lady Popham (Turner), white, delicately tipped with 
lavender; four feet. 
Lollipop (Holmes), salmon bull'; fine shape, centre full; 
five feet. 
Lord Palmerston (Holmes), deep crimson scarlet; com¬ 
pact ; four feet. 
Midnight (Fellowes), nearly black, sometimes shaded with 
purple ; three to four feet. 
Miss Burdett Coutts (Turner), fawm colour; a good va¬ 
riety ; four feet. 
Primrose Perfection (Keynes), bright primrose ; four feet. 
Boland (Bush), white, tipped with crimson; large and 
constant; four feet. 
Boyal Scarlet (Keynes), rich crimson scarlet; fine form ; 
three feet. 
Silver Queen (Keynes), light peach, shaded silver; four 
feet. 
Sir J. Franklin (Turner), shaded buff; beautiful in form ; 
four feet. 
Touchstone (Fellowes), rosy purple; early and fine; four 
feet. 
Yelloio Beauty (Turner),bright yellow; fine form and con- 
i stant; four feet. (9 d. each, or the set for 12$.) 
New Fancy Dahlias—selected. 
1. Eliza (Barnes), crimson, tipped with white ; fine form; 
excellent; three feet. 
2. Favourite (Keynes), blush, striped with crimson purple; 
! very beautiful, full and constant; has obtained many honours; 
three feet. 
3. Marc Antony (Salter), golden yellow, striped with crim¬ 
son ; a gorgeous variety and quite unique. 
4. Miss Hamilton (Dodds), blush, striped with rosy crimson; 
a compact flower of medium size, with close centre; three feet. 
5. Mrs. Seacole (Keynes), red, flaked and dashed with 
crimson, and stained with yellow; a remarkably strange 
flower ; has obtained many first-class certificates. 
6. Mrs. Boshell (Rawlings), pure white, flaked with rosy 
purple; fine form ; three feet. 
7. Queen (Rawlings), creamy ground, suffused with pink, 
and dashed with crimson ; the finest fancy Dahlia yet raised ; 
obtained first-class certificates wherever it was shown ; three 
feet. 
8. Tiger (Keynes), red, heavily striped with maroon ; dis¬ 
tinct and fine; has obtained many honours; three feet. (10$. Qd. 
each.) 
Fancy Dahlias, Older Varieties—selected. 
Alliance (Perry), lilac ground, shaded and spotted with 
dark maroon ; four feet. 
Baron Alder son (Perry), bright orange, tipped heavily 
with white ; two to three feet. 
Butterfly (Salter), yellow, striped and spotted with red; 
fine; four feet. 
Carnation (Keynes), clear white ground, striped and spotted 
with red; four feet. 
Cleopatra (Salter), orange yellow, striped with crimson 
scarlet; four feet. 
Duchess of Kent (Knight), pale yellow, tipped with white; 
four feet. 
Fancy King (Legge), orange and scarlet, tipped with white; 
four feet. 
Gloire de Kain (Cailloux), white, striped and spotted with 
maroon; four feet. 
Inimitable (Salter), bright orange salmon, striped and 
spotted with crimson; three feet. 
Miss Herbert (Dodds),lilac fawn, tipped with pink; threefect. 
Pigeon (Knifl), white, with rosy salmon edge ; three feet. 
Topsy (Keynes), purple, mottled and striped with wliite; 
two feet. (1$. each, or the set for 9$.) —T. Appleby. 
STRIKING CUTTINGS IN SAND AND 
WATER. 
When I wrote my hurried note on this subject to Mr. 
Beaton, my instructions were chiefly intended for amateurs, 
who had small flower gardens, but without glass of any kind 
for such purposes. The instructions were to show, that they 
might take a tea-saucer filled with sand and water, put the 
cuttings into it, place it inside of any room window of the 
house, and that they would strike. 
This is my own idea, proved for this very purpose, and is 
quite original. 
Scores of gardeners, to my knowledge, have adopted the 
sand-and-water system for cuttings in hothouses, frames, &c., 
for years, and if your correspondent, “ Frank,” thinks there 
is merit or honour connected with such simple instances as 
these, pray by all means let it be cliffy awarded, but I see 
none. It is only a part of one’s duty, ever to be willing to 
publish instances of this kind, that might benefit or promote 
the objects of the lovers of horticulture. I copy nothing 
from other publications, and what I write, I do from prac¬ 
tical results. Still, had I the power over all Editors, I would 
at once say, I shall never publish one word on any subject, 
unless the real name, and address in full, of the writer accom¬ 
panies it. This would at once put an end to a nuisance, that 
some of our best practical writers have been subjected to for 
years. Then we should know, at once, whether critics were 
worth replying to or not.—D. Kidd, Hampton Court. 
GROWING PEAS. 
There seems nothing more puzzling to one, not in the 
mysteries of any calling, than the multitude of names by which 
articles are offered to him. Take, for instance, a seedsman’s 
circular, and the list of Peas is perplexing. Some in italics to 
indicate unusual excellence, others prefixed with a star for 
some other good point, while all are said to be good, some 
super, and not a few extraordinary. In this respect, seeds¬ 
men equal, if not surpass, that class of tradesmen w ho often 
fall under the sarcastic lash of our friend Punch. But, it is 
not my purpose here to find fault with this, but only to assist 
the inexperienced in selecting what may be of service to him. 
Peas, for instance, being one of the all important season 
vegetables which everybody likes, and everyone is anxious to 
grow as many as they can. This latter desire is not at all times 
the most prudent one, for if the space at command be very 
limited, 1 would advise some other crop than Peas under most 
circumstances—for they can generally be bought pretty good 
in many places in the south of England-—but in remote 
country places, where there is plenty of room, and stakes tor 
them to climb up by, it is then advisable to sow as many as 
are likely to be wanted. So much depends on this, that no 
