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THE

STANDARD OF PERFECTION

FOR

The Properties

OF

FLOWERS AND PLANTS.

ORIGINATED AND DEFINED

BY GEORGE GLENNY, F.H.S.

ORIGINAL EDITOR OF "THE GARDENER'S GAZETTE," "THE HORTI
CULTURAL JOURNAL," "THE GARDEN ALMANAC," ETC.
AUTHOR OF "GLENNY'S CULTURE OF FLORIST'S
FLOWERS," "GARDENING FOR

THE MILLION," ETC.

NOW FIRST COLLECTED, WITH MANY NEW PROPERTIES.

The only Authorized Edition published.

LONDON:

HOULSTON AND STONEMAN,

PATERNOSTER ROW.

INA

LONDON:

R. CLAY, PRINTER, BREAD STREET HILL

PREFACE.

THE universal reception of the standards of flowers and plants laid down by Mr. Glenny, and the unprincipled manner in which men, and bodies of men, have appropriated them, without acknowledging their source, has induced the proprietors of the series of papers in which these standards were first published, to collect, and republish them in a cheap form, in the hope and belief, that an authorized edition of the entire series will check further piracies, and secure to the author the reputation which he has earned in the Floricultural world as an original contributor to the Garden Literature, and the promoter of a taste for flowers and plants unknown before his time.

ADDRESS TO THE READER.

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I BELIEVE there are many old florists, who would give their ears had the idea of publishing certain rules for judging flowers by a perfect model, instead of by comparison with general favourites, crossed their mind instead of mine; they would make great sacrifices to be the author of "the Properties of Flowers and Plants." must not pretend that I was the first who attempted to lay down rules; because Maddocks, and many others, had published what they considered to be "the Criterion of a perfect Tulip," auricula, carnation, pink, and some others. "The Criterion," however, was a lame affair; founded on no principle, assimilated to no understandable objects, and not half defined; there was nothing in "The Criterion" of a good flower that could be acted upon. The best collection, perhaps, of these criterions is to be found in Loudon's Encyclopedia, not all his own, but part collected from other authors. Let us see what

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