66 THE FLORIST. 
He would be a fortunate man who could originate one with 
the colour of Géant des Batailles in Roses, or Searlet Defiance 
in Verbenas. There is something of novelty in colour im 
some of the new ones mentioned below, and that will be a 
recommendation to many who do not perhaps particularly 
admire the large-flowering varieties. In this instance, Mr. Salter 
leads the van, and the list given below comprises those which, 
on my visit there last November, I considered particularly 
deserving of notice ; and as it would be idle in me to attempt 
to give directions for growing them, when the pages of the 
Frortst have been enriched by cultural directions from some 
of the first growers of the day, I shall merely add the deserip- 
tions of those which I had marked :— 
Alarm, dark crimson, the flowers well incurved, and the plant apparently 
inclined to be dwarf and bushy 
Arthur Wortley, rosy amber, yellow tips, flower very full, and most beau- 
tifully incurved, unquestionably a striking variety : something in the 
style of Dupont de I’Eure, but better in habit, colour and fulness (see 
plate) — 
Emperor, very large, perhaps the largest of-all sorts grown, anemone flowered, 
blush with sulphur centre; it has the peculiarity of changing when 
fully out into a dark cherry, rather coarse perhaps, but good , 
General Harding, a curivus orange red, flower well incurved, something like 
- Two-Coloured Incurved, but better habit of plant, dwarf and very free 
flowering 
Jewess, orange and red; a first-rate plant for specimens 
John Bunyan, bright rose, very full; habit of the plant good, and will there- 
fore make a good specimen plant 
Mrs. W. Holborn. We have long known the lady from whom this is called 
as Annie Salter, and under her new cognomen she is likely to have a 
more extensive acquaintance still. The flower is a fine white, and well » 
incurved 
Queen of. the Isles, another fine large white, something like Vesta, but 
larger and broader in the petal ; a fine free-blooming and dwart variety 
Wonderful, a good crimson, and when caught in its youthful state well 
incurved, but afterwards reflexed 
Yellow Perfection, a rich deep yellow, of most perfect form, something like 
Plutus, but superior to it in every way; one of the (if not the very) 
finest yellows out 
There are some others which are very pretty, and equal 
perhaps in the estimation of many to those I have already 
enumerated, but these seemed to me the cream of the collection. 
Deal, Feb. 20. | D. 
THE WINTER AND THE WEATHER IN YORKSHIRE. 
AN idea has of late years prevailed with some people that our seasons 
are much altered from what they were in former times—that our 
winters were so mild and our springs were so severe, that it was almost 
hopeless to attempt to grow fruit without glass or some other protection. 
The winter now drawing to a close will, to some extent, have corrected 
