NOTES ON NEW FLORIST’S FLOWERS. 
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Class. 
Marked on the upper 
wings. 
Diadelphia 
marginal band and 
Polyadelphia 
two spots. 
marginal band and 
Syngenesia 
many small spots, 
two rings. 
Gynandria 
two rings with cen¬ 
Monoecia 
tral spots in them, 
two double rings. 
Dioecia 
two double rings with 
Polygamia 
central spots, 
two single rings 
Cryptogamia 
with several central 
spots, 
none. 
Marked on the lower 
Order. - wings. 
Frustranea 
two rings with cen¬ 
tral spots. 
Necessaria 
two double rings 
with central spots. 
Filices 
one spot on the body 
Equisetacae 
2 spots. 
Lycopodinae 
3 — 
Marsileacae 
4 — 
Musci 
5 — 
Hepaticae 
6 — 
Algae 
7 — 
Lichens 
8 — 
Fungi 
9 — 
There is nothing we can add that will explain the matter 
more fully, and therefore conclude by cordially recommending 
the adoption, either with or without the botanical arrangement, 
to all plants, more especially to established specimens, whether 
hardy inhabitants of the open garden or the tender and highly- 
prized ornaments of our plant-structures. 
Ed. 
NOTES ON NEW FLORIST’S FLOWERS. 
Perhaps the following random remarks on some of the new 
flowers that have appeared this season may prove useful to those 
who are anxious to obtain the best of all novelties, and who may 
not have an opportunity of judging for themselves. 
Pelargoniums. — But few of these favourite yet frail flowers 
have been seen near the metropolis this season that are destined 
to lead the general taste, or that at all promise to be stars of 
any considerable magnitude. Connoisseurs require a decided 
advance of some kind or other before they concede an un¬ 
qualified approbation. We have already an overwhelming mul¬ 
titude of what may be called middling flowers, so that unless 
a new kind possesses in an extraordinary degree some desirable 
property, it is useless and inconsistent to encourage it, much 
less to characterise it as “ first-rate,” &c. The best of those 
exhibited at* the public shows is Beck’s Aurora, a good-formed 
rose-coloured flower, but wanting substance. Silverlock’s Em¬ 
peror Nicholas is of the same class, and open to the same objec¬ 
tion. Beck’s Desdemona possesses the requisite thickness of 
petal, and is highly coloured, the upper petals being a rich 
