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period when the chilling blasts of autumn have left us but the 

 vestiges of departed verdure. 



Great pains have been taken to obtain as many varieties 

 as possible, and the following form the collection of the au- 

 thor : 



White Quilled. 



Pale Buff, or Orange, changeable , red and 



orange Jlowers on the same plant. 

 Buff. ' 

 Purfile. 

 Lilac Quilled. 

 Rose Coloured, or Pink. 



Lilac and White, changeable, the flowers vary 

 to lilac, white with a lilac centre^ and to 

 pure white. 



Dark Crimson, or Sfianish Brown. 

 Straw Coloured Quilled. 

 Golden Yellow. 

 Tasselled White. 

 Sufierb White. 

 Semidouble Quilled White. 

 Pafier White. 

 Quilled Fiame Yellow. 

 Sulfihur Yellow. 

 Sufierb Clustered Yellow. 

 Small Yellow. 

 Single Yellow. 

 Quilled Pink. 

 Semidouble Quilled Pink'. 

 Quilled Orange. 

 Semidouble Quilled Orange. 

 Early Crimson. 

 Cur ltd Lilac. 

 Quilled Light Purple. 

 Expanded Light Purple. 

 Quilled Salmon. 



The following are entirely new, having been introduced by 

 the author the last year :-*- 



Double Indian Yellow. 

 Double Indian White. 



