The florist's guide, and cultivator's directory, Band 1

3-lobed 5-toothed acute anthers bloom bluntly 3-sided bractes bright broad broadly lanceolate broadly obovate bulbs Calyx tubular Carnation centre Chelsea clasping the stem collection compost Corolla crimson cultivated cylindrical dark purple dark velvetty purple Dianthus plumarius drawing edges elegantly feathered inwards filaments Florist Flower-stem erect Flowers terminal Flowers white gradually narrower inwards green hairy handsome variety handsomely formed Hogg Hyacinthus orientalis inches inserted Involucre Involucrum lanceolate last Summer leafy Leaves opposite less loam lobes spreading margins nearly notched outer ones broadest Ovarium smooth ovate Paddington Green Pedicles Perianthium leaflets Petioles Picotee Pink plant pollen Polyanthus pots powdered pure white Ranunculus asiaticus reflexed Ridgway 169 Piccadilly roots rose-colour rounded scarlet season Sect sepals slender point soil sorts Stamens Stem branching Stigma sessile striated striped tapering ternate thickly clothed three leaflets three-lobed toothed tube TULIP Tulip-bed Tulipa Gesneriana Umbel undulate upper side variegated Watts weather yellow