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Edged ones, or such as have the upper petals edged with yellow, 

 while, t$c— Jane Shore, Mrs. Drake, Silver Belted, Ma favorite, 

 Mrs. Grimstead, Camelion, Othello, Duke of North umberl and. 



Purple large flower*, but some having a Utile variety of colour 

 ;,,. (hem— Vhilo, Shining Purple, Purple Tricolor, Grand Purple, 

 Tippo Saib, Lady Bath, Louis Philippe, Blue Beard. 



Dark — the upper petals dark, the lower ones spotted, or while, 

 or yellow. — Mrs. Bolland, Giovanni, Reform, Prince George, 

 William the Fourth, Barratt's Emperor, Commander-in-Chief, 

 Miss Whitelock, Lady Ackland, Barratt's Lady Pilkington, Alfred, 

 Mrs. Heywood, Mr. Hatfield, Barratt's Mrs. Simpson. 



Ruby coloured. — .Mrs. Ladbrooke, Amanda, Ruby, Copper Cap- 

 tain. 



Spotted and striped. — Maculata, Barratt's Chancellor, Ajax, 

 Barrattii, Lord Gambier. 



l/ight coloured. — Grandillora, Fair Rosamund, Blanda, Lady 

 Granville, Miss Douglas, Venus, Altaica. 



Sky Blue, with various low petals. — Maid of the Mill, Warrior, 

 Altaica, Tricolor major, Pallida, Lady Althorp. 



Yellow, some of t/i em spotted. — Lord John Russell, Mr. D.Gas- 

 ktll, Lady Grey, Lady Oswald, Bang-up, Waverley, George the 

 Fourth. 



Changeable. — Weathercock, Phoebus, Barratt's elegans, &c. &c. 



William Barratt. 



Wakefield, August 1st, 1834. 



ARTICLE VIII. — On Plants which arc peculiarly 

 adapted fur 'planting in Beds in Masses; each kind 

 being showy and profuse in Flowering. By Flora. 



/.' chschollzia californica, yellow. — Grows too feet high; blooms 

 from J mir to September. The seed should lie. sown in pots in 

 Spring, and placed in a hotbed; when the plants are large enough, 

 they may In' transplanted into a bed of rich deep soil/where thev 

 will begin W bloom about the first of July; they will endure the 

 cold ol uinii r very well, if planted in abed that has a dry substratum, 

 oi ii ill' bed be raised a few inches higher than the surrounding 

 ground. It is essential to their endurance of winter, that the roots 



