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C. pfeoniflbra: bright pink, large flower, fully four 

 inches in diameter, two rows of circumference petals; 

 those of the centre numerous, very close, erect, and in the 

 form of a sphere; plant of slender growth; leaves two 

 inches broad and three inches long, of a delicate green. 

 Superb. 



C. Palme ria alba: leaves two inches broad and three 

 long, rather reflexed, of a very dark green is a plant of 

 neat habit, an 1 profuse in blooming flowers finely double, 

 clear white, about three and a half inches in diameter ; 

 petals bold and round regularly imbricated, though not 

 closely set ; is a very graceful flower, and has been sold in 

 England as C. Candidissima, which is a superior article, 

 and even figured in the Florist's Magazine as such. There 

 is also another flower by this name, but very inferior, being 

 only semi-double. Superb. 



C. Palmer's perfection, dark crimson, inclining to pur- 



Ele, very large, perfectly double, and of handsome form; a 

 ee bloomer. Magnificent. 



C. Pdrksii, or Park's rose striped ; pale rose marked with 

 white ; flower about four inches in diameter ; petals large, 

 round, and irregular; centre showing a few stamens. This 

 flower is to some sweet-scented leaves two and a half 

 inches wide and three and a half inches long ; roundish, 

 oval, and slightly acuminate deeply separated; plant of a 

 stiff growth. Superb. (There is a French Parksii : single 

 crimson.) 



C. Philadelphia, (Smith's,) flowers four and a half to 

 five inches in diameter; the circumference petals large 

 and round ; those of the interior smaller, with a little con- 

 vexity, perfectly double, colour changeable, bright crimson, 

 spotted with white ; dark rose, fading to the centre, or all 

 crimson : even the same plant producing all the variety ; 

 plant of an upright branching habit ; leaves ovate, acumi- 

 nate, of medium size, and a very dark dull green ; bloomed 

 first in 1834, when only two years from the seed, and the 

 flower was then four and three-quarter inches in diameter. 

 Magnificent. 



C. picturata: leaves three and a half inches wide and 

 four and a half inches long, of a bright green ; flower four 



inches in diameter ; spherical and extremely double ; petals 

 of the centre irregular and closely folded ; th 



those of the peri- 



