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ing tassels, and form a strong contrast to the next in almost every re- 

 spect. 



43. The Great Tasseled White ; The Tasseled JVliile, Ilort. Trans, v. 4. p. 

 339. and v. 5. p. 420. Has also been called the expanded White. Tliis 

 large, strong and broad, deep-green, shining-leaved variety is one of" the 

 latest of all in blooming; but its lovely llowers are larger and more 

 showy than those of any white-flowered variety, and endured to the end 

 of January, 1833, the date of the present paper. No flov/er in this chil- 

 ly clinrale stands the cold so well, or so long continues to beguile the 

 fancy of a florist by its protracted opening, by its liardihood in expan- 

 sion, and by the soft hue of its snowy blossoms; currying on, as it were, 

 the flowery beauty of lingering autumn into the very bosom of winter, 

 whose ice at length closes the temple of Flora for a time, until the her- 

 ald flowers of spring appear amidst the melting snow, as if impatient of 

 delay. 



****** Half-double Tassel-flowered; with only half-double flow- 

 ers, and narrow elongated quilled petals ; often drooping and somewhat 

 resembling a tassel. 



44. Half-double Quilled White ; Semidouble (Quilled IVhite, Hort. Trans, v. 



5. p. 158. A very tall robust variety'. The flowers are among the latest 

 varieties, and more inclining to be single than usual, yet of too late oc- 

 currence to ripen seeds with us. They are very large, and the narrow- 

 quilled petals are very singularly waved, and as if pursuing each other 

 from right to left, making a pleasing and almost animated appearance. 



45. Half-double (Quilled Pink ; Semidouble (Quilled Pink ; Hort. Ti-ans. v. 5. 

 tab. 17.* (inferior figure) p. 157. and v. 5. j). 422. and v, G. p. 351. This 

 variety grows rather tall, and flowers latish, but its flowers, although 

 but half-double, and only of the middle size, possess a degree of grace- 

 ful elegance and lovely hues peculiarly their own. It is at present a 

 rare variety. 



46. Half-double Bronze Buff; Pale Buff, Hort. Trans, v. 6. p. 334. Also 

 called the Semidouble Pale Buff", and Reeve's Pale Buff, and Quilled 

 Bufi', and the Buff. It is a very tall and free-going variety, and its half- 

 double buft" large flowers, which in their early stages are much bronzed, 

 though of coarse hues make a showy a[)pearance, and stand the weather 

 better than all others, opening rather early, and continuing late until all 

 the bronze is gone, having faded to a dull butf. 



47. Half-double Quilled Orange ; Semidouble Quilled Orange, Hort Trans. 

 V. 5. p. 412. and p. 422., and v. 5. tab. 17.** (left-hand figure), and v. 



6. p. 352. A tallish plant vvitli but few large and almost single, and also 

 some nearly halt double, flowers, of good size, but making a poor show. 



48. Half-double Pale Quilled Orange; Semidouble Quilled Pale Orani>e, 

 Hort. Trans, v. 6. p. 337. Also called Semidouble Deep Yellow. Of 

 the irnddle stature, with few and late flowers, of good size, but compar- 

 atively poor appearance, on loosely dropping foo. stalks. 



Obs. The author has rejected the hybrid word sewii-double throughout 

 the paper. 



