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for flavoring soups and stews, and are much esteemed. 

 Though often grown as an ornamental plant, the flowers are 

 but little used in this country for culinary purposes. 

 The varieties are as follow : 



Flowers single, deep orange-yelloAV, high- Common 



Orange-flow- 

 flavored. It is considered the best variety ered. 



for cultivation. 



This differs from the foregoing in .the paler Lemon-flow- 

 color of the flowers, which are also less aro- 

 matic. The plants are not distinguishable from those of the 

 Common Orange-flowered. 



Of the same color with the first named, but Double 



Orange- 

 \vith fine, large, double ornamental flowers. flowering. 



The petals are flat, and rest in an imbricated manner, 

 one on the other, as in some varieties of the Anemone. 

 It is more productive, but less aromatic, than the Single- 

 flowerinfir. 



A variety of the second named sort, with Double 



Lemon- 

 double flowers, like those of the preceding. flowering. 



To raise good seeds of either of the double-flowering 

 kinds, all plants producing single flowers must be removed 

 as soon as their character is known. When the single and 

 double-flowering plants are suffered to grow together, the 

 latter rapidly deteriorate, and often ultimately become sin- 

 gle-flowering. 



This variety produces numerous small flowers Childing, or 

 from the margin of the calyx of the large cen- 

 tral flowers. It is quite ornamental, but of lit- 

 tle value as an esculent. 



