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37. Cluster Flowered (C florida.) — Flowers upwards of three 

 inches across, fine dark rose-coloured, resembling the warratah. 



38. Allnut's Splendid (C. splendens.) Syn. coccinea.— Flowers 

 remarkably profuse, brilliant scarlet, very showy, one of the very 

 best kinds. 



39. Carnation Warratah (C. insignis.) Syn. the remarkable, 

 Chandler's splendid. — Flowers large and conspicuous, of a fine deep 

 rosy red. 



40. Knight's (C. Knightii.)—A very fine kind, but the flowers 

 not so large as some of the forementioned. 



41. Ross's (C. Rossii.) Syn. gloriosa.— Flowers dark red, mea- 

 suring nearly four inches broad ; a fine variety. 



42. Expanded Flowered (C. expansa.)— Flowers dark red, 

 very showy, and produced in abundance. 



43. Aucuba Leaved (C aucubce folia.) — Flowers much like the 

 last, but the appearance of the plant is very different. 



44. The Neat (C. concinna.) — Flower deep rose colour ; not so 

 showy as some of the others, but a kind well deserving extensive 

 cultivation, 



45. Red Posony Flowered (C. Paeonia flora.) — Is a free 

 flowering variety common in most collections. 



ARTICLE VI. 



ON THE CULTIVATION OF THE HYACINTH. 



BY AN EXTENSIVE GROWER IN PARIS. 



The double-flowered hyacinth has generally had the preference of 

 single kinds by the florist growers ; but, though such is the case, 

 there are some of the latter which are in very high repute in this 



country. 



I grow upwards of one hundred kinds of the single flowering, 

 which are truly beautiful ; the colours are uniform, deep, and rich ; 

 and the kinds selected are of vigorous growth, most of them having 

 spikes of bloom a foot long. The most beautiful of the collection is 

 the imperial purple; it was raised at Haarlem. All the single ones 

 I have flower equally well, whether grown in the open bed, in pots, 

 or bloomed in glasses. 



