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quin, white, mottled with rose ; Hendersoni, white and violet ; 

 Fanny, sulphur yellow ; Florence, pink and white ; Glory, white 

 and crimson, tipped yellow ; Lamplighter, rose, yellow lip ; Lilian, 

 white ; Miss Davis, pink ; Mrs. Ashford, white, spotted with 

 crimson ; Mrs. Hodge, yellow, carmine striped ; Major Stewart, 

 crimson and orange ; Nina, white, mottled rose ; Murillo, sulphur, 

 crimson spots ; Namur, rose pink, yellow tip ; Rosy Morn, rose ; 

 Royal Albert, j^ellow, red striped ; Sir George Douglas, carmine ; 

 Sunbeam, white, peach stripes. 



Potentillas. — I have before me a list of twenty Potentillas 

 which were grown in 1848, and with most of them I was well 

 acquainted as rock and border plants at that time. Some of them 

 might be found now in old-foshioned gardens, but for the most 

 part they have disappeared. With one exception they bore single 

 flowers, and the exception in question was a seedling raised by 

 Messrs. Pope of Birmingham, and sent out, I think, about the 

 year 1845, under the name of Potentilla atrosanguiuea fl.-pl. 

 The flowers were not very double — perhaps semi-double woidd be 

 a better description. Since then the atrosanguiuea strain has been 

 extensively worked upon, and many beautiful hybrid forms, some 

 bearing showy double flowers, have been the result. There is, I 

 think, a future before the double Potentillas. When better known 

 they must become popular. They will succeed in any good garden 

 soil, are very hardy, and easily increased by division in autumn 

 or early in spring. They also ripen seeds abundantly, which, if 

 sown as soon as they xv^ew, will make flowering plants the following 

 year. The flowers of some of the double varieties are very large, 

 and the colours bright and pleasing. I find by picking off" the seeds 

 the plants flower up to the autumn. 



Double Varieties. — Californica, yellow; Cameleon, scarlet and 

 yellow ; Dr. Andre, yellow, suflused with vermilion ; Don Quixote, 

 yellow and scarlet ; Hamlet, crimson ; Jane Salter, orange and 

 scarlet ; Louise Van Houtte, dark crimson ; Perfecta, crimson and 

 yellow ; Purpurea, dark scarlet ; Victor Lemoine, scarlet and 

 orange ; Versicolour, pretty flaked and blotched variety ; William 

 Rollisson, dark crimson and orange. 



Single Varieties. — Atrosanguiuea, dark crimson ; Golden Cuj), 

 yellow; Goldfinch, yellow and brown; Harlequin, yellow and 

 scarlet ; Magnet, crimson ; Sanguinea, red ; S. aurea, scarlet and 

 orange ; Striata multiflora, orange, with scarlet stripes ; Splendens, 

 orange and scarlet. 



Pyrethrums. — In their present form the Pyrethrums are a 

 comparatively recent triiunph of the florist, for though the species 

 (roseum) from which the beautiful varieties under consideration 



