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at  Battledown  is  a  grand  yellow,  very  intense  in  colour.  Mrs. 
N.  Foulkes,  Madame  G.  Henri,  grown  in  small  pots  and  carrying 
single  blooms,  were  very  fine.  Mr.  Lusty  grows  a  goodly  quantity 
of  incurved,  which  looked  promising,  but  time  prevented  my  taking 
notes  of  them. 
Mr.  Drake  of  Cardiff  has,  as  usual,  a  fine  collection  of  plants, 
mo.st  of  them  carrying  show  blooms,  but  the  following  struck  me 
as  being  particularly  promising: — Lady  Phillips,  very  large  and  good 
colour  ;  Australie,  Mons.  Hoste,  good  in  substance  and^eep  in  colour  ; 
Mrs.  Barkley,  Viviand  Morel  and  its  sports,  C.  Davis  and  Lady 
Hanham  were  all  in  a  very  promising  condition  and  can  still  hold 
I  heir  own;  Le  Grand  Dragon,  to  use  Mr.  Drake’s  own  words,  has 
was  prominent  on  account  of  its  fine  crimson  colour ;  Hy.  Weeks  is 
another  good  crimson  ;  D.  Seward,  Pride  of  Madford,  Mrs.  W.  Mease, 
Nellie  Pocket,  Mons.  Chenon  de  Leche,  and  Mrs.  W.  Seward  were  all 
promising  ;  Pride  of  Exmouth  and  Madame  G.  Henri  can  still  hold 
their  own,  and  Lord  Ludlow  is  very  distinct,  and  seems  of  good  habit. 
Mr.  Drake  is  what  he  is  pleased  to  term  experimenting  with  a  few 
incurved,  and  the  following  appeared  to  more  than  justify  the  venture : — 
Globe  d’Or,  Miss  D.  Foster,  Chi ysanlheraiste  Bruant,  very  fine;  Ada 
Owen,  Mrs.  H.  J.  Jones,  Countess  of  Warwick,  Rose  Owen,  Mrs.  A. 
Hills,  and  Baron  Hirsch. 
The  Heath,  Cardiff,  where  R.  A.  Bowring,  Esq.,  gives  his  gardener 
Mr.  Joy  a  free  hand,  was  the  scene  of  my  next  visit.  Here 
Fig.  115.— CHRYSANTHEMUM  J.  R.  UPTON. 
come  to  stay.  Mrs.  A.  H.  Hall  was  very  good,  but  it  shows  a  great 
diversity  of  form  according  to  which  bud  is  taken,  being  much  more 
incurved  in  some  than  others.  Lady  Ridgway,  which  seems  to  come 
good  on  any  bud,  was  splendid.  President  Nonin,  taken  on  an  early 
bud,  was  pale  in  colour,  but  made  up  for  that  in  size ;  Mons.  L.  Remy 
and  T.  Carrington  were  good. 
Amongst  the  many  good  yellows  Soleil  d’Octobre  stands  out 
prominently,  and  seemed  to  me  an  indispensable  variety.  Madame 
G.  Bruant  promised  to  be  a  good  back-row  bloom,  and  Princess 
Bassaraba  de  Braucovan  showed  good  substance  of  petal.  Mrs. 
Coombes  was  splendid,  and  seems  good  everywhere.  I  saw  a  bloom 
that  showed  a  tendency  to  sport  iwhite,  which  if  it  comes  to  pass 
should  make  growers  fairly  independent  of  the  vagaries  of  Madame 
Carnot.  Madame  C.  du  Terraille  is  another  of  Oalvat’s  many  good  ones  ; 
Madame  G.  de  Brie  is  large,  and  a  lovely  shade  of  pink;  H.  J.  Jones 
Mrs.  Coombes  was  in  grand  form  both  for  colour  and  substance. 
Miss  Alice  Byron  and  Florence  Molyneux  were  very  good ;  Lady 
Phillips  and  Miss  Edith  Pilkmgton  are  more  than  useful  novelties,  and 
so  is  Jane  Molyneux;  Fran9oi8  Pilau  is  a  very  promising  yellow,  also 
new.  Emily  Towers,  Madame  G.  Bruant,  Phoebus,  Miss  N.  Pockett, 
M.  Chenon  de  Leche,  Elthorne  Beauty,  Eva  Knowles,  Mr.  A.  Barrett, 
T.  Carrington,  J.  E.  Clayton  were  all  up  to  the  standard.  Mrs.  W. 
Mease,  G.  J.  Warren,  and  Madame  Carnot  deserve  sj)ecial  mention. 
M.  H.  Martineau  is  somewhat  after  the  style  of  E.  Molyneux,  and 
very  dwarf  habit.  J.  R.  Upton  and  Soleil  de  Decembre  promised  well 
for  later  shows.  Eucharis  Lilies  made  a  fine  show  in  one  of  the  houses, 
and  Mr.  Joy  also  showed  me  some  splendid  Cattleya  gigas,  one  of 
which  had  a  spike  of  five  very  fine  blooms.  I  cannot  quite  make  up 
my  mind  which  was  the  best  thing  I  saw  at  The  Heath,  but  the  late 
vinery  cannot  be  far  from  top.  Black  Alicante,  Gros  Colman,  Lady 
