270 ON THE BELLIS PERENNIS. 



should you, at a future period, permit me, I intend adding a few 

 observations on Carnations in pots, and on the wintering of the 

 yellow Picotee. 



ARTICLE TIL 



REMARKS ON THE BELLIS PERENNIS, OR DOUBLE FLOWERED 



GARDEN DAISIES. 



BY MR. PETER MACKENZIE, WEST PLEAN, SCOTLAND. 



I have looked over the eight volumes of the Floricultural 

 Cabinet for some notice respecting the culture and increase of those 

 beautiful little flowers that appear as pleasant 



" As Jupiter 

 On Juno smiles, when he impregns the clouds 

 That shed May flowers." 



I refer to the Bellis perennis, but more particularly to the double 

 varieties of our gardens ; and in the volumes of the Cabinet that are 

 published, I find only one notice recommeu ding them to public regard. 

 It is from the pen of Mr. Charles Goodall, Rode Hall, Cheshire, 

 vol. hi. page 34. When I read that excellent article, I was some- 

 what surprised that the number of varieties cultivated were so few. I 

 know that it is a common opinion among the gardeners that there are 

 not above six or eight varieties of the Double Daisy, but those who 

 think so are greatly mistaken. I am convinced that if the different 

 varieties were collected that are now grown in the gardens of 

 " The fair, free homes of England," 



they would make a splendid appearance. 



The Daisy is a flower that is loved in the dawning of infancy, and 



is not denied the eulogiura of the philosopher. It has afforded a 



theme for all our poets. It is a flower that blooms in the sublime 



Epic as well as in the simple Pastoral. Its very name is Poetry. 



Sir David Lindsay, in the 16th century, sings — 



'• Where art thou, May, with June, thy sister sheen, 

 Weel borderer with daisies of delight, 

 And gentle July with thy mantle green, 

 Enamelit with roses red and white." 



Shenstone the poet, and lover of landscape gardening, does not pass 



it by without notice. 



" The turf with daisies hroider'd o'er, 

 Exceeds we wot the Parian floor." 



