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CALENDAR FOR MARCH. 
Barrenger’s Earl Spencer. Purple flake ; a large, well-formed 
flower; ground pure, and the colour laid on bold and even. 
May’s Ariel is a good addition to the rose flakes. We could 
wish a little more purity in the white, but the form and marking 
are perfect. 
Holliday’s Lord Rancliffe is an excellent scarlet bizarre; guard 
petals fine; a slight confusion in the centre; white, pure, and 
marking regular. 
Picotees. Edmonds’s Jenny Lind. A light, red-edged flower, 
first-rate in every respect; will be indispensable, and must be 
procured as soon as it can be had. 
Barrenger’s King John very closely resembles Headly’s King 
James. The edging of both is a shade or two darker and broader 
than that of Barraud’s Cornelius, hitherto the best heavy, red- 
edged Picotee we had. 
Burrough’s Lorina. A light-edged purple; is a neat, but 
rather small flower, of about average quality. 
May’s Juliet. Another light purple; is superior, though 
slightly inclined to cup ; it has a beautiful, regular edge, of bright 
purple. 
Pansies. Only a few really good varieties made their appear¬ 
ance last season, among them were Bragg’s Mrs. Bragg, a fine, 
large, smooth, flat flower, with yellow ground, and a broad belt 
of dark maroon. Turner’s Achilles is a tolerably good flower, 
with yellow ground, fine eye, and purple crimson belt. Thomson’s 
Cossack and Turner’s Potentate maybe reckoned among the use¬ 
ful dark seifs. 
Fuchsias and Verbenas made no advance, if the latter is not 
retrograding ; of the former, only Smith’s Ne Plus Ultra and 
Turville’s Beauty of Chelmsford can be mentioned: the first like 
Formosa elegans , but of improved habit, and the other resem¬ 
bling One-in-the-Ring. Of Verbenas positively nothing can be 
said. 
CALENDAR OF FRUIT AND FORCING GARDEN 
OPERATIONS—MARCH. 
Fruit Garden. This is a busy month in the orchard, and no 
time should be lost, but grafting should be begun as soon as the 
sap runs free enough to allow the bark to be easily raised from 
