THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



APRIL 1st, 1835. 



PART I. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



ARTICLE I.— On the Culture of the Hepatica. By 

 Snowdrop. 



The double white Hepatica being still a desideratum, and even 

 ristence doubted, I have been looking into a few old garden- 

 ing books on the subject; and as this delightful flower has not 

 been treated on in your pages, have been induced, with the hope 

 t)f calling attention to them, to give the lists and the mode of cul- 

 ture which 1 there found, and more particularly as we seem at 

 present to possess fewer varieties than were formerly known. 



Gekard (Herbal, edited by Johnson, p. 1203J figures one 

 species, Hepatica tr'tfolia ; and two varieties, trifolia rubra, single 

 red ; and multiflora Lubclis with double (lowers, but does not state 

 l be colour of the latter. He also mentions a single blue, a single 

 red, and another in his garden with " white flowers, which in 

 stalkcs and every other respect is like the other." The double, he 

 , was then a "stranger in England/' but Johnson adds, "it 

 i BOW plentiful] in many gardens." 



I'nii.i.ii's (Flora llis/orica, vol. ii., p. 20,) says, " it docs not 

 qppeu that the Hutch Florists were in possession of the double 

 Hepatica late as Kill." However this maj be, it is certain 

 that CaiSP. PaM, in bis llm/ils Florulits, publislicd :il Am 



li'iin.in Holland, in Itll4; figured and described (I'm I plate I. 



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