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34. The Tassdrd Salmon ; The Quilled Salmon, Kort. Trans, v. 5. tab. 17.* 

 (iiitL'iior filmic) [ . 414. and p. 4'<J9. Tliis is a late-flowcring, slender, and 

 •iniccrul plant, with large ta!<sel- like, and iialf-expanded drooping quilled 

 saliiinM-r<)li)r( (1 llowcrs, and is very nneoninion. 



35. The Tassclcd Yilloiv, iinri. Trans, v. (j. j). .329. A very tall and strong- 

 growing large-leaved variety, with nunierons tassel-formed dowers of 

 the largest and most showy kind, often measuring more than five inelies 

 over, and aj)pearing rather early. It is one of the most desirable and 

 free- irrowing of the whole colleelion. 



m. The 'qi,illcd Yillotc, Horf. Tians. v. 4. p. 341. and v. 5. p. 420. This is 

 u tall variety, with rather large flowers, of the middle season, or later, 

 prodneing iis blossoms in clusters at ilie top of the strong upright shoots. 

 It is also known bv the name of the Quilled Straw. 



37. The Late qiiiUcd Ydloic, llort. Trans, v. 6. p. 343. This lias been call- 

 ed a very late and not very desirable variety in collections. It appears 

 to be of the middle size, but it has not yet opened its blossom-buds with 

 ine, not having long possessed it. 



38. The Large Lilnr, Hort. Trans, v. 4. p. 34-3. and v. 5. p. 420. Also called 

 the Late Lilac, the New Lilac, and the Semidoubie Purple. A very tall 

 upright plant, bearing but few double large and clustered flowers at the 

 summits of the branches, and those so late in appearance, that in cold 

 seasons they cannot expand well, and are consequently in but little re- 

 j)ute. I have only seen one plant in blossom, and that in my own gar- 

 den. 



39. The Tassekd Lilac, Hort. Trans, v. 6. p. 332. A middle-sized or rath- 

 er tall plant, of very great beauty, and one of the most fiesirable of the 

 whole group, having very sliowy tassel-formed flowers, five inches or 

 more in expanse, very numei'ous, early, and elegantly drooping from 

 their weight, but they often show a disk. It is a likely variety to pro- 

 duce seeds of the most promising kind, but I have not hitherto hearil of 

 its ripening auv in England. 



40. The Tasseled Purple ; The Purple, Hort. Trans, v. 4. p. 334. Has also 

 been called the Old Purple, the Old Red, and the Quilled Purple, and 

 is figured in the Bot. Mag. tab. 327. This is a very beautiful and 

 rather early-flowering plant, of almost the middle size. The flowers 

 are very numerous, gracefully drooping, and of middling size, and are 

 at first of a reddish purple color, but become paler by age, and in mild 

 seasons will continue in succession froni the end of October to the se- 

 cond week in January. It acquires the name of Old from being the 

 first China chrysanthemum that came to England in IModern times, and 

 bloomed at Mr. Colviil's nursery, in Nov. 1795, but was said to be at 

 Kew in 1790. The great horticidtm-alist Miller certainly had one, or 

 more likely two, of these Chinese or Indian chrysanthenumis, in culti- 

 vation at Chelsea long before; but it is not yet quite satisfactorily ex- 

 plained what sorts they were. See Hort. Trans, v. 4. tab. 12. p. 326. 

 and following. 



41. Tlie Changeable Tasseled Jflite ; The Changeable Jfliite, Hort. Trans, 

 v. 4. p. 33G. and v. 5. p. 419., and Bot. Mag. tab. 2042. It has also been 

 called the Old White, being the first white-flowered variety known in 

 our gardens. It is recorded in the Hort. Trans, to have been raised 

 from a sporting branch of the preceding, and indeed, resendjies it in 

 every thing but color. It is a very graceful asid elegant plant, and in 

 warm situations its flowers are often more or less tinged or dotted with 

 purple or blush color. 



42. Tlie JVarruw qiiilled IVldle ; The quilled Wliite, Hort. Trans, v. 4. p. 

 3.37. and v. .5. p. 419. This rather slender vari(!ty is almost of the mid- 

 dle size, and has the sleuilerest and most completely quilled florets, and 

 the earliest flowers, of the whole group, which hang in gracefully droop- 



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