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larger that the perfect flowers can be obtained, the 

 more esteemed are they ; this, however, is a mere 

 matter of taste, many persons preferring the smaller, 

 which are generally more perfect and elegant. 

 I shall here add the names of a few fine Pinks: 

 Bow's Luster, Bow's Suwarrow, Davy's Eclipse, 

 Forster's William IV., Barrat's Conqueror, Bray's 

 Waterloo, Faulkner's Duke of Clarence, Faulkner's 

 Diadem, Davy's Duchess of Devonshire, Clarke's 

 Smolensko, Kean's Wellington, Pottecary's Eclipse, 

 Pitman's Miss Cooper, Clarke's Prince Coburg, Da- 

 vy's Lady Durham, Langford's Sir Francis Burdett, 

 Davy's Shannon, Pitman's Louisa. 



THE POPPY, 



" that an opiate dew 



Concealest beneath thy scarlet vest," 



Is too rank for a very limited garden. The 

 great double French Poppy is, however, desirable 

 in extensive gardens and shrubberies ; but in any 

 garden, the small French double Poppy, (paper- 

 leaved,) of various colors, and resembling the Ra- 

 nunculus, and the Abyssinian, recently introduced, 

 when kept within proper bounds, are striking orna- 

 ments. The bracteate Poppy is a perennial, and 

 may be propagated either by parting the roots in 

 March, or by seed ; if by the latter mode, the seed 

 should be sown in autumn, for if sown in spring, 

 the plants would run to flower from the heat of the 

 weather, before they have acquired sufficient strength 

 for bearing. 



The French and Abyssinian Poppies are annual, 

 and should be raised from seed sown in April. The 



