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when just coming into bloom, and a most noble frame of plants they — 
were; nothing could lok finer than the foliage; and éverything” promised 
a first-rate’ blooms: aiid Isvas' very ‘sorry that nd ‘opportunity was) 
afforded meiof seeing them afterwards. ° His intelligent ‘foreman, Mr: 4 
‘Ball, however, was good enough to send me’a list of those that bloottiel | 
especially well, which I subjoin.' Init Duke! of Cambridge 1s classed 
under greys, -I never saw it but as'a green ;‘ and Fletcher's Mary Ann, 
which [have always seen as ‘a’grey;’1s classed among’ whites, another 
teof:how these flowers'vary7ol & Lirw .SItW TOMIONG anh. ABT 
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Waterloo (Hogg) | Horse aif Bright Menuss529 10 TONa8 
Lord Palmerston fsitiv pfaMary. Adiid ors 10 efuGl 
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Ringleader t berg) Mrs,, Sturrock dive ash 
Marta | Metropolitan (Spelting) | a 
The only exception ]-haye heard to, good blooming this seasons Dy,, 
Plant’s. Now what I-saw there I have told the readers, of the Llea2s¥s5 
and that did not seem to me.a bad bloom.. .What.he alludes to, L hayes © 
no doubt is the fact, that he had, found in some turf, that he had receiyed, 
from Wicklow, and, used, for his Auriculas, alarge quantity of a grub) 
which, before he detected its presence, had injured a great many, of, 1's;; 
plants, especially his Freedoms and Colonel Taylors, ,;.L, tooka, fem notes | 
of mine, but the press of parochial, business,, consequent, onan. absence, 
of three weeks, prevented my paying. them; the,. minute attention fer, 
this purpose I should have. done, and hope, if God willit,.to do amothgr, 
year. One thing is remarkable, though I believe, it to) be.,the,.same,; 
with all florists’ flowers, how. some. sorts. bloom one.year.go,much better; 
than others... I had some wonderful trusses.of. Waterhouse’s Conquerdr,.| 
many of the pips larger, than a crown piece, while Fletcher's ; Ne ;plus,; 
Ultra did, not all come up to the. mark ;.; then,.Oliyer’s, Lovely, Ann, i; 
which; last year came a decided grey, was, in, eyery, instance.this yeara,/ 
pure green. , These are some of the freaks that all florists’ flowers iplay., 
us sometimes, With regard to the, scarcer kinds, . Maclean's Unique); 
was not. so, good as I have, had, it, and, Richard Headly was,small. 
George Lightbody, a very, pure grey, something after, Laneashire, Ly 
thought very good, a very solid paste, and’ aswell formed ywell.set | 
flower ; it is deficient in ground colour, butwithal, I regard it as.one.of,) 
the best grey-edged Auriculas grown. Chapman's, Squize, Smith (self), 31 
unless it improves, is only’ fit for the dungheap; ., Wath, me Jt, wasare: 
very bad Lord Primate, never a more true illustration, or thes anda 
parturient,”” for it is a most ridiculoysly large, and, pretentious. rowel. 
while the flowers are, small to a, degree... Headly’s Aurora, pretty... 
blue flower in the style of Metropolitan, has also, the defect of being .. 
too small; Smith’s Lycurgus, of which I say a pip. from, Tota” is a. 
fine bold green. edge, and if true to, character, a, great, acquisition; J, 
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