RIBES SANGUINEUM, rLoRE ۰ 
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Ribesiaceæ. 一 Pentandria-Monogynia. 
CHARACT. GENERIS. — V. ci-dessus p. 17. CHARACT. SPECIEI. — Varietas © typi seminibus orta. 
Texte du Magazine of Botany de M. Paxton. 
RIBES SANGUINEUM FLORE PLENO. 
DOUBLE BLOODY-FLOWERED CURRANT. 
Ermmorosy. See above, page 18. 
CHARACTER GENERIS. See page 18. 
CHARACTER SPECIFIC. See above. 
For specimens of this interesting variety of a popular shrub we are indebted to the kind attention 
of Mr. James Me Nab, curator of the Caledonian Horticultural Society; and we extract the following 
account from the statement wich accompanied them : — 
« It has flowered for the second season in the garden of the Caledonian Horticultural Society, both 
as a standard and on a wall. Last year the plants were comparatively weak, and is was il thi 
spring that it fairly proved itself. It is considerably later in blooming than the ordinary varieties of 
the scarlet flowering currant, the standard variety being in bud when the single variety was passing 
out of flower; and on th i is i 
ts racemes vary from three to six inches in length; a 
them to stand clear of the foliage. It also 
it assumes 
are long gone b 
prolifera). Its growth is every 
riety, and, like it, is easily propagated by cuttings and layers, and re 
It appears that the merit of putting cultivators in possession of this 
s due to Mr. David Dick, gardener to the Right Honourable the Earl of Selkirk, 
ngs raised in the Isle Garden. 
uires the same treatment. » 
spring-flowering shrubs i 
at St. Mary’s Isle, Kircudbright, who discovered it in a collection of seedli 
Mr. Mo Nab has favoured us with the annexed remarks on its origin, taken from a letter addressed to 
him by Mr. Dick, last April: — 
« The seed I have no doubt was ripened in the Isle Garden, where they fruit abundantly, and 
was sown by some one of my predecessors. When I came here, I found about one hundred seedling 
plants standing close together, none appearing to have flowered. During 1839, I had them planted 
d, on their flowering, the double variety was deteeted. I did not observe any approach to a 
at stock ; nor even the least tendency to 8 multiplication 
ised. Amongst those obtained at the sume time with 
h 
the double one, several distinct shades occur; many 
than the original species. I have generally found the double variety three weeks later in flowering 
than the common varieties cultivated here. » 
(1) When received specimens of it in this state, which perfectly corroborate the deseription. 
