CULTURE OF THE PANSY. 



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Fig. 70. 



are adhered to ; the two top petals are alike, 

 the two side ones are uniform, and the 

 bottom is consistent with them. The ground 



Fig. 71. 



colors might be deep yellow, light yellow, 

 sulphur color, straw color or pure white. 

 We should not quarrel with an}- body's taste 

 as to colors, so that there were not two 

 ground colors on the three lower petals. 

 The different varieties given here, are mere- 

 ly to show that scarcely any flower exhibits 

 such perfection and so great a contrast; 

 imagine all the different colors found in the 

 Pansy to be applied, one after the other, to 

 flowers thus marked, yet there is nothing at 

 all improbable in the attainment of such 

 marks in everv color that we ha^'e distribu- 

 ted among them. How different would all 

 these marks appear under different circum- 

 stances. Suppose one had them in dark 



blue, another chocolate, a third purple, a 

 fourth light blue, and one set with the 

 ground color .yellow, and another with white. 

 The variety would be endless. There is, 

 however, great room for improvement 

 among the Pansies now in cultivation. 



Fig. 72. 



" The prevailing faults are flowers long 

 instead of round, bottom petals indented : 

 the edges rough, the lower petal tinged or 

 patched with yellow, while the side ones 

 are white. We do not complain of the 

 bright spot of yellow which may frequent- 



Fig. 73. 



\y be found within the rays or stripes, for i* 

 is only a blemish when it reaches beyond 

 the eye. We ought to observe, that except 

 the first figure, which is a fair representa- 

 tion of the flower which was substituted for 



