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C. montana is a very beautiful hardy plant, bearing white 

 flowers very profusely, and it can be forced readily, grown in 

 pots. C. cirrhosa. This is a Spanish winter-blooming plant, 

 quite hardy, and has been cultivated since 1596. It has 

 pretty creamy-white or pale-yellow flowers, borne in axillary 

 clusters among the ovate, serrate, evergreen leaves (see ' Bot. 

 Mag.,' t. 1070). At Glasnevin this plant flowers in the open 

 air from November until February, hence it ought to be in- 

 valuable to the hybridiser. C. integrifolia is a distinct species 

 from Germany, with four-sepalled flowers of a deep-blue colour. 

 It would be most useful for hybridising with other allied 

 species, or crossing with modern varieties (see * Bot. Mag.,' 

 t. 65). 



Delphinium* (Larkspurs). A showy genus of hardy annual 

 or herbaceous plants, principally natives of America, Southern 

 Europe, and Northern Asia. They are represented in our 

 gardens by D. grandiflorum, a large-flowered, deep-blue-flow- 

 ered plant introduced from Siberia in 1816. Of this there are 

 several rosy, white, purple, and double-flowered forms. D. 

 chinense, also blue, introduced from China in 1818. D. 

 sibericum, and others from which our modern varieties have 

 originated. D. consolidum is a native of England. The annual 

 species are readily propagated from seeds sown in March, 

 while the herbaceous kinds may be propagated from division 

 of the roots, or by autumn-sown seeds. All the herbaceous 

 varieties are readily propagated from cuttings during the spring 

 and summer months, and this method may be adopted to 

 increase desirable seedlings. Numerous beautiful hybrids 

 and seminal varieties have been raised in gardens, and few 

 blue - flowered plants are more stately or useful for early 

 summer blooming. D. ambiguum is said to be a hybrid be- 

 tween D. datum and Aconitum napellus. Delphinium formo- 

 sum is a garden hybrid, although it reproduces itself from seed 

 as truly as most species. It was raised by the late Mr C. 

 Moore, nurseryman, East Dereham, Norfolk. D. nudicaule, a 

 rather weakly-habited plant, bearing red or scarlet flowers, 

 might be used for hybridising some of the robust-habited vari- 

 eties, such as D. formosum, D. belladonna, the last being one 

 of the most lovely of all blue-flowered plants. Numerous 

 double-flowered varieties have been raised in Continental 

 gardens, D. Keteleerii (see 'Florist,' 1874, p. 73) being one of 

 the best. Mr Thomas Ware of Tottenham has also raised 

 numerous improved forms, and these form fine pot-plants for 



* See Parkinson's ' Paradisus in Sole,' p. 277-279, for figures and de- 

 scriptions of old kinds. 



