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THE FLORIST'S JOURNAL. 
MR. GROOM OF WALWORTH 
Has a select assortment of the very choicest florist’s flowers ; and 
in none can the bulbs be preserved in a better state, or the 
growing plants in finer and more healthy condition, and at the 
same time as hardy as their nature will admit, which is a grand 
point in the case of flowers that are to be removed. 
Of his tulips we need hardly speak,—they are so well known, 
and so justly esteemed for their beauty, their freedom of growth, 
and the little disposition the colours have to run, even under very 
ordinary treatment. Of them he still has an abundant supply, as 
also of hyacinths and other Dutch bulbs, some of them of novel 
and beautiful varieties. His collection of carnations and picottees 
is also very superior; and the yellow picottees in particular are 
above all praise. Nor must we forget pinks of the most perfect 
forms and choice colours. His auriculas are also very fine and in 
considerable variety. Of Lilium lancefolium ( speciosum ) he has 
many fine bulbs fit for sending out, both of Album and Punctatum ; 
and as he has succeeded in obtaining perfect seeds after cross im¬ 
pregnation, we may look for some fine new varieties in course of 
time. One of the most delightful new plants in this collection is 
Verbena Groomiana, which is of the most intense scarlet that can 
be imagined. He has also several new species of the pinus family, 
from the Himalaya and the Mexican mountains, which are becoming 
so fashionable in ornamental planting, and which so well deserve 
every attention that can be bestowed on them. The wood of the 
Deodora furnishes a timber for all time, more imperishable than 
bronze or granite ; and many of the species are exceedingly grace¬ 
ful when growing—rising like cones of beryl from the lawn or the 
open glades of the arboretum or the shrubbery. 
MESSRS. ROLL]SSON OF TOOTING 
Have a much more extensive and varied collection than Mr. 
Groom, though their leading subjects are somewhat different. • 
From the number and extent of their grounds they are enabled to 
cultivate almost everything, from the most common cottage plant 
to the most rare and expensive stove one. To enter upon any 
analysis of such a collection as theirs, would of course be out of 
the question ; and therefore we must content ourselves with saying 
that every thing which they have to send out is the choicest of its 
