132 THE FLORIST. 
SINGLE LILAC. 
Honneur d’Overveen, bronze lilac, large bells and spike, fine new colour 
Prince Alfred, violet, large bells, good spike : 
SINGLE WHITE. 
Grandeur a Merveille, pale blush, good bells, large spike 
La Baleine, deep blush, good bells and spike ; 
Madame van der Hoop, pure white, large bells, immense spike 
Madame Talleyrand, fine white, large spike, good 
Snowball, pure white, large spike and a great advance in shape 
SINGLE BLUE. ; 
Argus, indigo blue, with distinct white centre, large bells and spike, new 
and novel , 
Baron-von Tuyll, dark blue, large spike, fine bells 
Charles Dickens, pale blue, large bells, good spike 
Couronne de Celle, pale blue, immense spike, fine 
Grand Lilac, azure blue, large bells, fine spike 
Lord Raglan, fine close spike, one of the best 
Orondates, porcelain blue, large bells and spike 
SINGLE BLACK. 
_ Black Prince, fine spike, good bells ; 
General Havelock, dark purple changing to black, large bells, immense 
spike 
Prince Albert, blackish purple, large bells, and fine spike 
Siam, fine spike, large bells, good 
SINGLE YELLOW. 
Anna Carolina, fine clear yellow, good bells and spike 
SOILS, FRUITS, AND MANURES. 
(Concluded from page 110.) 
MANURES.—What is the best kind of manure for fruit trees will 
depend very much on the nature of the soil to which it has to be applied. 
We must also remember that manures have a two-fold action—one 
fertilising, the other mechanical. This, the fertilising quality, as well 
as the material from whence manures are derived, should be taken into 
our calculation, as on this will mainly depend their adaptation for each 
class of soils to which they are applied. Ina former paper on these subjects 
(page 18), we classed soils generally as calcareous (containing more or 
less of lime in their composition); aluminous (containing a large 
amount of clay); arenarious (or sandy soils), and peat. For the 
present we will confine our remarks to the three former, as peaty soils 
hardly come within the category of fruit soils. Taking the soils 
containing lime more or less in their composition, we at once per- 
ceive that they absorb solar heat less readily than others, and may 
therefore be termed cold soils, though, as they are usually well drained, 
they are cold only comparatively. The most suitable fertilisers for these 
soils are ammoniacal manures, or those which contain a considerable 
per centage of either ammonia or nitrogen, of which night-soil, horse 
manure, guano, soot, flocks, and bone shavings, may be adduced as 
examples, and of which good stable manure will answer every purpose, so 
far as preparing soils of this class for fruit trees is concerned. A clayey 
