ON THE IMPROVEMENT OF PLANTS. 441 



from selected plants without the interposition of artificial 

 fertilisation. The variety Gloria Mundi (yellow) gave 

 Sulphurea perfecta, Argo, El Dorado, Queen of the 

 Yellows, and King of the Yellows, all yellow flowers ; and 

 Charles Baron (buff). El Dorado, a smooth yellow flower, 

 gave yellow flowers only, bright in colour, but rough and 

 irregular in form. Lady Willoughby d'Eresby (cream 

 colour) gave a lot of rough dirty whites. Lady Franklin 

 (deep pink) reproduced itself, and also gave sundry good 

 rose-coloured flowers. Lady Palmerston (blush) gave a 

 very fine brood of peach-coloured and pink flowers. 

 Purple Defiance (purple) gave a rough lot of purples. 

 Attraction (pink) gave a fine brood of pinks. Princess 

 Royal (cream and chocolate) gave a rough lot of dirty 

 cream and chocolate-coloured flowers. Crusader (pink) 

 reproduced itself, and also others of similar colour, vary- 

 ing in form. Celestial (blush) reproduced itself, and 

 various shades of blush of superb quality. Memnon (a 

 fine crimson flower) produced regularly some plants bear- 

 ing crimson, and others bearing purple flowers. Omar 

 Pacha (cream edged with white) reproduced itself. A 

 purple seedling of good form and substance gave some 

 purple and some blush-mottled flowers of very indifferent 

 quality. A salmon-coloured seedling of fine quality gave 

 flowers of the same colour, but of indifferent form. A 

 fine dark shining crimson seedling gave flowers orange, 

 fawn, and buff, of middling quality, but no crimson. A 

 white-edged seedling gave flowers like the parent, but as 

 a rule not so good. A fine rosy peach-coloured seedling 

 gave rubbish. A nankeen-coloured seedling reproduced 

 itself almost without variation. A pure primrose seedling 

 of very high quality gave some primrose-coloured flowers 

 and some primrose with dark base, usually inferior to the 

 parent. A French white-veined seedling gave a lot of 

 prettily and variously veined flowers. An orange-buff 

 seedling gave also some few prettily veined flowers among 

 many very rough ones, of the colour of the parent. A fine 



