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heaped into an umbel, but scattered on the branches of llie stem on 

 very long peduncles. Native of Italy and the Valais, 



There are three varieties of this plant: one with deep red, another 

 with flesh-coloured, and a third with white flowers: and the Double 

 Rose Campion, with a large crimson flower, which is chiefly cultivated 

 as being an elegant and beautiful flower. 



In the second, the stem is erect, dichotomous at the top, and 

 covered with a white nap. The leaves are conjugate, connate, 

 ovate-lanceolate, quite entire, erect, and pressed to the stem, being 

 all over nappy. The flowers from the top and forks, solitary. The 

 flower-stem rises near a foot or a foot and a half high, and the 

 flowers grow in umbels on the top of the stalk, and are of a bright 

 red colour. It flowers in July, and the seeds ripen in September. 

 It is a native of the mountains of Switzerland. 



Culture. — In cultivating these plants all the single kinds may be 

 easily propagated by the seeds, which may be sown either in the 

 spring or autumn on a bed of common earth; and after the plants 

 have attained the height of about three inches, they should be 

 pricked out into another bed, at the distance of six or seven inches 

 from each other, water being immediately applied in not too large a 

 quantity, and afterwards occasionally repealed. In the autumn or 

 spring following the plants will be in a proper situation to be trans- 

 planted into the places where they are to remain for the purpose of 

 flowering in the ensuing summer months. And as the plants fre- 

 quendy come up from the self-sown seeds with equal strength and 

 vigour, these may be transplanted in the same manner, and often 

 succeed fully as well. 



As the double sorts afford no seed, they can only be propagated 

 by parting the roots; which, as they mostly afford abundance of 

 offsets, may be easily effected. 'J'his should be performed in the 

 autumn, as soon as the flowering is over, every head being parted 

 that can be slipped off' with roots. These should then be planted out 

 in fresh ground that has not lately received any manure, at the 

 distance of six or seven inches from each other; water being applied 

 in a sparing manner until they have taken fresh root, after which it 



