1944 
DELPHINIUM Barlowii. 
A Garden Variety. 
This Delphinium presents to the eye the most gorgeous 
mass of deep lapis-lazuli blue that 1 am acquainted with 
in the vegetable kingdom. My attention was attracted by 
. it in the rich collection of hardy herbaceous plants in the 
nursery of the Messrs. Rollissons of Tooting, where the draw- 
ing was made. It is quite impossible to describe, without an 
appearance of exaggeration, the effect of several plants 
growing in a cluster, and well backed up by species whose 
colours harmonize with the blue. | 
Messrs. Rollissons have obligingly furnished me with the 
following memorandum respecting this variety: — 
“ We received the Delphinium from a friend at Man- 
chester several years ago, under the name of “Delphinium 
Barlowii,' and we believe it to have been raised by a florist 
of that name in the neighbourhood of Manchester; un- 
doubtedly it is an hybrid production, and we think the 
parents to be Delphinium grandiflorum and Delphinium 
elatum, partaking in growth and flower of the character of 
both. 
“lt is a most ornamental and beautiful herbaceous plant, 
and very easy of cultivation; it appears to flourish in every 
soil and situation. We have had plants in bloom throughout 
the whole of summer and autumn ; the principal stems some- 
times attaining the height of seven and eight feet, and much 
branched. €) 
4 We have sold plants of it to most of the nurserymen in 
Great Britain. It is known also under the name of Delphi- 
nium phoeniceum.” 
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