1944 

 DELPHINIUM Bailowii. 



A Garden Variety. 



This Delphinium presents to tlie eye the most gorgeous 

 mass of deep lapis-lazuli bhie 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 beli-eve 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. 



" it 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. 



" 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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