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Madame Crozy is still, I think, unrivalled among the gold-edged varieties. 
Mr. White claims that his ‘‘ Winifred’’ is even more striking; the scarlet of 
the Crozy being superseded by a rich, glowing crimson. 
Franz Bucher is a beautiful golden-edged variety, with a ground of a 
salmon shade of orange, difficult to describe. The petal is broad, and the 
margin wavy. ‘The plant is very dwarf. 
Konigen Charlotte is a dwarf-growing variety, and one of the best and 
most striking. There is much more of golden edge than in Madame Crozy. 
Professor David (Crozy) is a good variety, narrower in petal than those 
before mentioned, but an abundant bloomer ; yellow, blotched with chocolate or 
dark-brown. ; ; 
Among the spotted varieties, Comte de Bouchard holds pride of place in 
my experience. It has very broad flowers, heavily spotted with dark-red. 
Florence Vaughan has a great reputation, and: is often said to be the best, but 
I have not seen it. I ordered it last year, but the plant supplied me, at a good 
price, proved to be none other than Admiral Courbet, one of the oldest and 
“most floriferous of all. Need not say there is a black mark across the name 
of the seller with me. I am inclined to think I was sold, as well as the plant. 
Admiral Courbet was also supplied to me by another man for I. D. Cabos, 
said to be one of the best orange varieties. Another black mark against that 
seller. It seems hardly likely that mistakes can be made in these plants. 
They certainly should not be, and there must be great negligence, otherwise 
ignorance or even worse, when itis done. : 
Other really good spotted varieties are Tigre, L. EB. Bally, Progression, 
Senateur Montefiore, all of Crozy’s raising. I have a very good seedling 
from Pink and Cowan of this class. 
In green foliage and crimson flowers, the best I knowis Alphonse Rouvier 
(Crozy). Itis rather a tall variety, with splendid broad petals of rich dark- 
crimson. Kaiser Wilhelm II. (Pfitzer) is another good variety which increases 
fast. It is very effective and floriferous. Compte Horace de Choiseulis one 
of the finest. ‘The habit is dwarf, and the spikes very dense; but it is not such 
arobust grower as K. Wilhelm. Antoine Crozy, Souvenir de Jeanne Charreton, 
and Miss Sarah Hill are other good varieties. 
Among the reds, with dark foliage, Victor Hugo is a striking variety. 
The flowers, if somewhat small, are of a most intense crimson. It is tall in 
growth. 
Gloire de Lyon is the best I have in this class, strong in growth, and 
very floriferous, throwing a strong spike of orange scarlet flowers. 
The Garden is a good orange with green foliage. 
Guttermane has massive green leaves, and is tall in growth. The flowers 
are yery distinct, rosy-buff in colour. It belongs more particularly to the 
tridifloria group. su ied 
Paul Marquant is a peculiar shade of orange-salmon, with a noticeable 
silvery sheen overlying it; growth rather dwarf. 
Noutoni, rich crimson; Ehemanni, scarlet; Bruanti, rose; Nadir, red— 
belong to the zridiflora group with pendulous flowers, and all are good 
varieties. 
In drawing up this paper I am much indebted to our good friend, the 
Colonial Botanist, Mr. I’. M. Bailey, for advice and the free range of his 
valuable library; and to Mr. J. H. Maiden, director of the Botanic Gardens, 
Sydney, from whom I received the loan of an extremely useful volume. The 
paper itself is based on the work of Professor J. G. Baker, keeper of the 
Herbarium at Kew, who is the greatest authority on the subject. He has 
analysed, reduced to order, and recast the whole of the work of his predecessors, 
of whom the most notable have been—Roscoe, Bouché, father and son; Regel, 
Lambertye, and Miller. 
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