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light-green elon: distinctly veined and blotched with dark crim- 
son-purple.” The plate clearly shows that the margins of the 
chaff elti ere 
ous calor, pice one and in 7 cola ions At the time, 
One anonymous writer (Gard. Chron. 33: 407) raises the ee 
tion how several kinds of Coleus could cremate from the s 
On! ly e hy’ ‘brid witl C. Blumet as 
This had pee leaves, but the coloration was muc ch like t 
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from the other pollen paca: 
There is no mention of the presence of yellow colors in any of 
these hybrids. All were peels but with striking combina- 
tions of green an d amounts of purplish or red 
colorations. They were sold at auction (Gard. Chron. 33: 432) 
for the aggregate 390. One hybrid brought 59 gui 
production of these valuable variegated Coleus varieties 
stimulated further hybridization wor! illiam Bull soon pro- 
duced eighteen different types (reported by Herincq, 1868), and 
in November t ar he advertised pedigree id fro: 
enty cross 
jeakenteed Gard. Chron. 33: 1232. 
