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The following is the list above alluded to : — 



Adonis, pale reddish salmon, lower petals yellowish, marked with carmine 



Amabilis, brilliant vermilion 



Antiope, cerife, striped with deeper colour 



Aurautia, nankeen, yellow throat 



Bicolor, bright red, with yellow markings 



Berenice, hue rosy salmon, striped with orange red 



Bertha Rabourdin, pure white, lower petals richly marked with violet 



carmine 

 Brenchleyensis, vermilion scarlet, one of the brightest and best 

 Clemence, very pale lilac rose, shaded and spotted with deeper rose 

 Couranti fulgens, brilliant crimson 

 Don Juan, bright orange red, lower petals yellow 

 Dr. Andry, very bright orange red 

 Edith, lilac rose, striped with a deeper colonr 

 Fanny Rouget, carnation rose, the lower petals carmine rose 

 Florian, bright salmon rose, mottled 

 Hebe, pale flesh, mottled with carmine 

 Imperatrice, pale carnation, mottled with carmine 

 Janire, clear bright orange- red 



Keteleeri, bright vermilion red, mottled with brilliant carmine 

 La Chamois, nankeen buff, purple stripe 

 Louis Van Houtte, bright scarlet 



Madame Binder, white, the lower petals striped with carmine 

 Madame Place, very delicate salmon rose, lower petals nearly white 

 Mathilde de Landevoisin, white, or very pale flesh, striped with carmine 

 Miniatus, salmon red 

 Mr. Coudere, carmine shaded 

 Ninon de l'Enclos, flesh colour, striped with rose 

 Pegasus, carnation, mottled with purplish red 

 Penelope, pale flesh, mottled, lower petals tinted yellow 

 Rachel, blush lightly striped with rose 

 Sulphureus, sulphur, yellow and purple throat 

 Trioniphe d'Engheim, very dark crimson, yellow throat 

 Vesta, delicate sulphur colour, lower petals buff, marked with carmine 

 Wellington, rosy carmine, mottled 



JASMINUM NUDIFLORUM. 



This admirable plant was introduced by the Horticultural Society 

 from Nankin, in the year 1844, through their eminent collector, Mr. 

 Fortune ; and has been described by Dr. Lindley in vol. i., page 143, 

 of the new series of the Transactions of that body. It is a shrub with 

 angular deep green trailing branches. Its leaves are shining deep 

 green, and each consists of three sessile leaflets of an ovate form, which 

 fall off early in the autumn, and are succeeded by large yellow scent- 

 less flowers, which grow singly from the buds formed in the axils of 

 the leaves which have previously dropped. It was considered at the 

 time of its introduction that it would be an excellent addition to our 

 greenhouse plants, by reason of its being a free winter bloomer, and 

 continuing in flower for a length of time : and so it has proved, for 

 plants growing in pots, and trained either with long stems and pendent 

 branches, or in pyramidal form, have for years been objects of attraction 

 in many gardens — nor is its beauty less conspicuous when allowed a 

 more extensive range in the conservatory, with its roots growing in the 

 free soil. It is, however, as an open-air plant that I would direct 

 attention to its merits. On the face of a bleak hill, on the highest 



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