nU KEPOKT ON ANNUALS GROWN AT CHISWICK. 



L Viscaria coeli rosa aiba. 



Stk ; Agrostemma cceli rosa alba . . Thompson. 



Agrostemma, Neiv White . . . Turner. 

 A variety of diffusely-branched habit. The flowers were white 

 with deeply two-lobed petals, having an interval between them. 

 The plants were too diffuse ia habit, and the flowers too qarrovv 

 petaled to bo effective. 



Viscaria oculata, var. splendida. 



Syn : Agrostemma cceli rosa . . , Vilmorin. 

 This was by some error sent from Paris under the name of ccdi 

 rosa. It proved to be a large-flowered and highly-coloured 

 vpriety of oculata, the flowers being of a very rich rose-colour, 

 remarkable for its brilliancy in some of the selected plants. lu 

 this species the petals are broadly obovate-emarginate or even 

 obcordate, often over-lapping, and the corona is very short, ^ of 

 dn inch long, and obtusely bifid. 



Viscaria oculata nana . , . . Carter & Co. 

 This was pronouuced a first-olass annual, being dwarf and 

 compact in habit, and uniform in character. The plants were 

 about 15 inches high (growing up to 18 inches later in the 

 season), erect, and compactly branched. The flowers were of 

 the lively rose-colour with rich deep crimson eye, proper to the 

 species, and had also the same broad obovate petals, forming a 

 full circular flower. 



Viscaria oculata Dunnettii . . . Parker & Co. 



Syv V T),nn,.f,;! fVlLJIORIN. 



A pale blush-coloured variety of V. oculata, too indistinct in 

 colour to be an effective plant for decorative purposes, but form- 

 ing a pretty variety in a border of annual flowers. 



Viscaria oculata Burridgii . . Parker & Co. 



A large-flowered "variety, with the flowers of a very pale slate 

 colour or pale bluish-lilac, almost white. Like the last, the 



plants form very desirable and rather attractive annuals for 



