THE 
FLORIST’S JOURNAL. 
February, 1845. 
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ON PICOTEES. 
WITH AN ENGRAVING OF BURROUGHS’S LADY ALICE PEEL 
AND DUKE OF NEWCASTLE. 
We have this month the pleasure of introducing to our readers 
two flowers, the property of Messrs. Youell, nurserymen, of 
Great Yarmouth, which, if they do not quite realise our ideas 
of perfection, have at least sufficient claims on the score of 
usefulness, to render them desirable in all collections. 
No. 1 ., Lady Alice Peel , has been grown and exhibited near 
the metropolis, through the past season, by a few of the prin¬ 
cipal growers, and has been pretty generally admitted to be an 
acquisition ; for, notwithstanding the great difference that exists 
in the estimation of a flower between the Northern judges and 
those of the South, the scarcity of good kinds in the rose-edged 
class is sufficient to insure a more favourable reception than 
would be awarded even to the same flower, if of any other 
colour : thus this variety, though not without its faults, must be 
grown till a better is produced, because it is what the florist 
terms a useful flower. 
No. 2., Duke of Newcastle, is a light-edged purple, possessed 
of a finely formed petal, clear distinct margin, and of consider¬ 
able substance. 
Both of these are of greater depth and fulness than is usual 
with Northern varieties: they are seedlings of 1844, raised 
by the Rev. J. Burroughs, of Lingwood Lodge, Norfolk; a 
gentleman who gives promise to rank among the foremost of 
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