naked, and support on the extremity a solitary flower. In 

 this variety the flowers are a beautiful scarlet. 



Of the numerous species and varieties of this tribe of plants, 

 very few are admitted as ornaments to the flower-garden: 

 many of the annual kind are excluded, either from possessing 

 too gaudy an appearance or from the liability to scatter their 

 seeds too numerously on the border, producing a multiplicity 

 of plants, and a monotony of foliage and bloom. Independent 

 of the very gaudy species there are some well worthy of culti- 

 vation in ornamental flower-borders. The P. nudicaule (from 

 which the present variety has been produced) possesses a de- 

 gree of interest from its free production of delicately tinted 

 yellow flowers, about a foot or rather more in height. It is 

 from this species the present as well as many other varieties 

 have been produced, varying principally in the colour of the 

 flowers, which in diiferent plants produce variations of all the 

 shades of yellow, orange, and scarlet. The variety repre- 

 sented by this figure has been selected for the brilliancy of its 

 colour, for being less fugitive than many of the others, and 

 for transferring its beauties with truth to its offspring, while 

 many of the others sport to a great extent with their colours. 

 This variety, intermixed with P. nudicaule in the border, will 

 be found to assist in addinji to each other a degree of bril- 

 liancy which will render them conspicuously ornamental. 

 They may be admitted both in clumps in the flower-garden 

 and in the front of the shrubbery-borders : they grow freely 

 in light vegetable earth, and may be increased by seeds. 



The P. nudicaule is a native of Siberia, and was introduced 

 in 1730. 



This species was figured from Mr. Knight's Nursery, King's 

 Road, Chelsea. 



