10 LIST OF THIRTY-SIX EXTRA SUPERB RANUNCULUSES. 



Earl Grey (Finlai son's), white, red-spotted. 



Emily (Lightbody's), white, rose-edged. 



Exhibitor (Tyso's), yellow, crimson-spotted. 



Festus (Tyso's), yellow, red -spotted. 



Gomer, yellow, red-edged. 



Jane (Airzee's), white, crimson -edged. 



Jubilee (Tyso's), sulphur, rosy-mottled. 



Hamlet (Tyso's), yellow, brown-spotted. 



Herald, white, crimson-edged. 



Lame, white, purple-edged. 



Mrs. Neilson (Neilson's), cream, carmine-edged. 



Nonsttch (Aust's), white, purple-edged. 



Odoucer (Boyd's), cream, purple-edged. 



Prince Albert (Wylie's), white, purple-spotted 



Poliander (Tyso's), yellow, red-spotted. 



Sabina (Costar's), self-yellow. 



Sir JR. Sale, white, purple-spotted. ' 



Salome (Tyso's), cream, crimson-edged. 



Solfanaria, yellow-spotted. 



Suaviter (Tyso's), yellow, brown-edged. 



Thomas Hood (Lightbody's), white, purple edged. 



Tippoo Saib, dark purple. 



Talisman, white, purple-edged. 



Urania, white, rosy-mottled. 



Venturer (Tyso's), white, pink-spotted. 



Victor (Tyso's), dark purplish self. 



William Penn, white, purple-edged. 

 In previous volumes, excellent directions for successfully cultivating 

 the Ranunculus are given, to which we refer our readers ; but few, 

 perhaps, being acquainted with its history, we think the following par- 

 ticulars relative thereto will be interesting. 



The name Ranunculus is the diminutive of liana, a frog, because 

 some of the species grow freely in moist places frequented by these 

 animals. 



The beautiful class which are so generally cultivated in this country, 

 and exhibited at the Floral Society's meetings, is the JR. Asiatica, or 

 Persian Ranunculus, the original species growing wild in that country 

 as well as some other eastern ones, from whence it has been introduced 

 to beautify our own gardens. 



The Turks cultivated this flower at Constantinople for several ages 

 before it was generally known in other parts of Europe. Tournefort 

 says that the chief ornaments of the Seraglio Gardens at Con- 

 stantinople are Ranunculus flowers : the Turks call it Tarobolus 

 Ca/amarlale, and their account of it is that a vizier, named Cara 

 Mustapha, who delighted to contemplate the beauties of nature in 

 solitude, first observed, amongst the herbage of the fields, this hitherto 

 neglected flower, and wishing to inspire the then reigning sultan with 

 a taste for plants similar to his own, he decorated the gardens of the 

 Seraglio with this new flower, which he soon found had attracted the 

 notice of his sovereign, upon which he caused it to be brought from all 



