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becomes older the yellow subsides to a brii^ht 

 orange yellow, the marginal line becoming more 

 defined, and the markings enlarged; in the ma- 

 tm'e leaves the margin is a bright scarlet, and 

 the mid-rib is strijied hy a band of the same 

 bright color between two lines of a deep golden 

 yellow, and the blotchings and markings a rich 

 orange yellow, upon a deep green ground." 



Tex.as, writes : " Several years ago a friend, Mrs. 

 S. S. Thomas, of Carbon Cliff, 111., sent me a few 

 ^ceds, which she reported as a Chinese plant 

 seed, sent home by a Consul. Chinesp name, 

 • Boo-Yong.' I grew one plant — I have it now 

 blooming in my grounds — I call it a Hibiscus. I 

 have propagated it both from cuttings and seed. 

 The plant grows ten or more feet in height: five 



CKOTON DISRAELI, 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES. 



Varieties or Carnations.— C. Pinks asks : 

 " Will some one be kind enough to inform me 

 through the columns of the Monthly what is 

 the difference between Carnations Peter Hen- 

 derson, Boule de Xeige, Peerless, White Perfec- 

 tion, and Edwardsii, and oblige'?" 



A CuRiors Plant. — Mrs. S. E. B., Houston, 



pointed palmate leaf. The bloom is a large 

 double white, opening in the morning; by noon 

 a delicate pink, by evening a deep rose color, 

 so that my hedge of the plants present a very 

 showy appearance of white and rose colored 

 flowers. The first year the plant was killed 

 down by frost, but now stands the Winter. Tex- 

 ans call it the Cotton tree, on account of the 

 resemblance it bears the Cotton plant. I at first 



