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Rosa Centifolia ; 22. Frankfort Red ; 23. Copper-coloured ; 24. Ash 

 Rose ; 25. Poppy Grey ; 26. Pale Grey ; 27 . Variegated ; 28. Dark 

 Ash coloured ; 29. Light Maroon; 30. Apple Blossom; 31. Pale 

 Cinnamon ; 32. Pale Blue ; 33. Rose ; 34. Poppy Blue ; 35. Purple ; 

 36. Dark Blue, Wallflower-leaved. 



Distant Jloivered. — 43. Carmine ; 44. Giant Scarlet ; 45. Flesh- 

 coloured ; 46. Dark Carmine ; 47. Dark Blue ; 48. White ; 49. Light 

 Blue; 50. Red Gray ; 51. Chocolate; 52. Deep Violet. 



Late Flowering, or Autumn, German Stocks, blooming from 

 August to November. — Close flowered. — 53. Violet; 54. Copper, 

 Wallflower-leaved ; 55. Dark Copper ; 56. Light Copper ; 57. Car- 

 mine, with Wallflower-leaf; 58. Violet, with Wallflower-leaf; 59. 

 Dark Maroon ; 60. Flesh-coloured ; 61. Dark Blue; 62. Peach Blos- 

 som ; 63. Dark Brick-coloured ; 64. Pale Brick-coloured ; 65. Bright 

 Carmine ; 66. Carmine ; 67. White. 



Distant flowered. — 68. Red Gray ; 69. Dark Blue ; 70. Dark 

 Brown; 71. Dark Carmine; 72. Pale Blue; 73. Dark Violet; 74. 

 Red Grey ; 75. White ; 76. Red Brown ; 77. Copper-coloured ; 78. 

 Cinnamon. 



German Winter Stock. — This class of Stocks is similar to the 

 English Brompton Stocks. — 79. Pale Rose; 80. Carmine; 81. Dark 

 Blue; 82. Pale Blue; 83. White; 84. Brick-colour; 85. White 

 Wallflower ; 86. Violet Blue ; 87. Giant Scarlet ; 88. Peach-colour. 



ZiNNi.^s.— 89. White; 90. Dark Scarlet; 91. Yellow; 92. Dark 

 Purple ; 93. Bright Scarlet ; 94. Golden ; 95. Bright Purple ; 96. 

 Violet ; 97. Red ; 98. Rose ; 99. Buff'; 100. Crimson. 



I purpose to forward, for insertion in tlie next Number, a descrip- 

 tive list of the most showy greenhouse plants which will flourish in 

 beds in the open air during summer, and afterwards, a similar list of 

 perennial border plants. 



CULTURE OF CHOROZEMAS. 



BY THE MANAGER OF A FLORAL ESTABLISHMENT. 



This is a lovely and beautiful genus, profuse in blooming, striking in 

 its varied colours, and, like all the pea-shaped class of flowers, is highly 

 interesting. Some years' practical attention in propagating and gene- 

 ral management of an extensive stock, enables me to give in detail 

 some useful information thereupon. 



Cuttings should be taken of the young shoots when about an inch 

 and a half long, cutting them off" entire, with a small portion of the old 

 stem producing them. This old portion usually sends forth roots freely, 

 inserted in the usual sand used, and covered with a bell glass, plunged 

 in a gentle bottom heat. When well rooted, they are potted off" singly 

 into 60-sized pots, a free drainage, and in a compost of one-half 

 turfy peat, one-quarter of old decomposed cow-dung, and the remain- 

 ing quarter of white sand, pieces of charcoal, charcoal dust, bits of 

 pots or sand-stone, &c. The plants are placed for about ten days in a 

 close frame, then removed to a situation in the greeniiouse, &c., placed 

 near the glass or in a draught of wind. The plants are repotted in 



