Browallia Czerwiakowski 



308 REPORT ON ANNUALS GROWN AT CHISWICK. 



roas richly-coloured selfs. From amongst them several first-rate 



sorts might have been selected. 



Argemone Hunnemanni . . . Carter & Co. 

 This proved the same as A. mexicana, a tall branching plant, 

 with glaucous pinnatifid soft-prickly thistle-like leaves marked 

 with white veins, and having poppy-like yellow flowers, which are 



Argemone platyceras .... Carter & Co. 

 This proved to be A. grandifiora, a plant similar in habit to the 

 foregoing, but with large white flowers. 



r Van Houtte. 

 \ Carter & Co. 



This plant, introduced through the Belgian gardens, proved to be 

 the same as JS. elata, a pretty old-fashioned annual for pot- 

 culture, and in this case succeeding tolerably well in the open air. 

 The flowers were blue, numerous, and showy. 



Calliopsi3 bicolor nana .... Carter & Co. 

 A dwarf-growing variety, forming a compact bush, about 15 inches 

 high. The plants were not fixed in character. 



Calliopsis Mcolor speciosa. 



Syn : C. bicolor nigra speciosa, . . Carter & Co. 

 A good dark form of garden " Coreopsis," the florets being of a 



Calliopsis bicolor tubnlosa. 



Syn : Coreopsis, new quilled .... Turner. 

 The flower-heads were yellow and crimson, the florets rolled up 

 into a tube. It was very inferior to the usual forms, as regarded 



Callisteplms cbinensis. 



Of the very beautiful family of China Asters a large collection was 

 grown, but the season proved so unfavourable, that no detailed 

 report could be drawn up. Seeds were furnished by Messrs. 

 Carter & Co., Messrs. Fraser, Messrs. E. G. Henderson & Son, 

 Mr. W. Thompson, Mr. Turner, Mr. Veitch, and MM. Vil- 

 morin-Andrieux & CiE. The few varieties enumerated below 

 were the only ones that proved really fine :— 



§ 1. Dtcarf Chrysanthemum-flowered. 

 These, which belong to the series called French Asters, grew 



