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Par. Hump} has vciy double red flowers. 



Par. Stberica. — Pure white flowers, with flesh-coloured stigmas. May and 

 June. 



Yar. Tatarica has flesh-coloured flowers of from nine to fourteen petals, with 

 flesh-coloured stigmas. 



Par. uniflora has white flowers, much like the Pestalis. 



Par. vesta/is has white flowers of eight petals and pale yellow stigmas. May. 



Par. Wkittgi. — Pale blush flower produced upon a stem three feet high, bear- 

 ing usually five flowers. 



Amicrsonii produces flowers of a deep rose-colour, with the petals a little 

 curled. 



Anomala is characterized by its crimson drooping flowers, which it produces 

 about May and June. 



Superb-blush. — A double flower, with well-disposed petals slightly jagged at 

 the top, of a blush colour that deepens towards the base, which is occupied by a 

 lively pink ; segments of leaves long and acute. This is a very fine and desir- 

 able variety. 



Cornea simplex. — Flowers single ; petals large and jagged at the edges, the 

 upper part of a flesh colour, and the base of a dark purplish red. Flowers, when 

 well expanded, measure in diameter something more than nine inches ; segments 

 of leaves acute. This is a variety of much merit. 



Pariegata is a striking semi-double flower with good qualities. 



Arietina is a good flower, native of the Levant; flowers about May and June. 



i'retica is a native of Crete, its flowers are white and blush. 



Decora produces deep crimson flowers about May or June. 



Par. Pallasii is a native of the Crimea, a tolerably good flower. 



Officinalis produces red or crimson flowers. 



Festiva is a flower of considerable merit. • 



Par. carnescens is a variety of Festiva, its flowers are very double, and of a 

 deep rose colour. 



Par. rosea produces flowers of a deep rose colour. 



Par. rubra has very double dark pnrple flowers. This is the variety most com- 

 mon in gardens. 



Par. Sail in produces very dark purple flowers in May or June. 



Paradoxa, var. Jimbriata has very double flowers, and has been called the 

 double-fringed paeony. 



Chinese Primrose, (Primula sinensis.) — Plants of the Chinese Primrose are 

 very subject to damp off during winter, particularly if watered over the tops. I 

 do not approve of the general use of plants being kept in saucers of water, as it 

 tends to sour the soil ; but the Chinese Primrose, at this season, does best so 

 treated ; being thus liberally supplied, it will be preserved from damping, and 

 bloom profusely. 



Hastings. January 10, 1842. Flora. 



On the Double Yellow Rose. — A plant of the double yellow Rose growing 

 against a south wall in my garden, in a cold stiff soil, blooms well every season. 

 When the flower-buds are about half grown, I have a ridge of earth laid about a 

 yard from the stem ; and in this bason I then have manure water (drainings 

 from the dunghill) given so as it will sink at least a foot deep. When the buds 

 are bursting I give a similar watering. With this treatment the plant blooms 

 beautifully. It receives but little pruning. 



Perth, December 28, 1841. A Scots Amateur Gardener. 



Transplanting Evergreen Shrubs. — Considerable perplexity lias long been 

 experienced relative to the best period at which successfully to plant evergreen 

 shrubs, some persons asserting the spring season, and others autumn. After 

 many years' experience and observation 1 have found it mainly to depend upon 

 the soil. If it be a dry one, autumn is best ; if wet and swampy, spring. 

 Attention being paid to the above circumstances there will seldom be a failure. 



January 5, 1842. Evergreen. 



