336 Domestic Notices : — England. 



rose, which is now no more. Four years ago, M. Rossignol, the gardener 

 of M. Loisel of Bois Guillaume near Rouen, obtained a rose perfectly 

 green. It has constantly flowered green till within the last two years. Last 

 autumn it produced a fawn-coloured rose ; and at last five or six grafted 

 plants, which this gardener still possessed, did not flower green in the least. 

 The mother stock alone produced three green roses out of thirty or thirty- 

 six; and this evidently proves that this green variety can no longer be 

 considered lasting. I have also other proofs of this. I last year planted an 

 individual of this variety in my garden ; it flowered white, and all those 

 plants which I sold in London in the spring of 1829 flowered in the autumn 

 of that year of the same colour. I therefore hope you will mention this, 

 as I had no intention to deceive; but it would appear, and it is already 

 acknowledged, that it requires three or four seasons of flowering to prove 

 a new sort. A similar case happened with a rose at Rouen, which had pro- 

 duced flowers much variegated for two years, but the third year flowered 

 unvariegated. I am, Sir, &c. — Vallet Aine. Mr. YouVs Nursery, Old 

 Kent Road, March 22. 1830. 



Varieties of Primrose, Oxlip, and Cowslip, cultivated, in the Neighbourhood 

 of Coventry. — Sir, The following is a list of such of the principal varieties 

 of the primrose, oxlip, and cowslip, as I have observed cultivated in the 

 gardens in this neighbourhood. It is offered to your notice, not by any 

 means as a full and complete catalogue of all the known varieties, but in 

 the hope of drawing the attention of cultivators to the subject, and, perhaps, 

 calling into notice some of the varieties enumerated by our old English 

 herbalists, and now nearly forgotten, if not lost to our gardens. Some of 

 the following varieties (especially the double primroses) are well worthy of 

 more care in their cultivation than is commonly bestowed on them. If the 

 roots are divided in the summer or autumn, planted in pots, and protected 

 under a frame from the severity of the winter, they will produce a profusion 

 of flowers in the early spring, an ample recompense for the additional pains 

 of the cultivator. It is hoped that some of your correspondents may be 

 induced to add to the present list, so as to form a complete enumeration 

 of the several varieties at present cultivated in our gardens. 



primrose. White. Hose in Hose. 



Single. Dingy. Yellow. 



Common Yellow. Lilac. White. 



White. Crimson. 



Red or Crimson. Carmine.f cowslip. 



Do. with calyx enlarged OXLIP- Common Yellow, 



and partially colour- s - ngl( , w Red 



/-v ^- ^. • « Common Yellow. Hose in Hose. 



Oxhp Primrose.* Orange-eyed. 



Double. White. 



Yellow. Lilac.J 



It appears from an inspection of the above list, that the primrose is the 

 species most apt to produce double varieties, and the oxlip and cowslip 

 those termed hose in hose. — W. T. Bree. Allesley Rectory, near Coventry, 

 April 25. 1829. 



* That is, a primrose bearing its flowers on a common footstalk, like 

 the oxlip. 



-j- I received this by the above name, which, however, is not very appli- 

 cable, the colour being a very dark crimson, like that of a Polyanthus. It 

 is perhaps the handsomest variety of all. 



\ Raised from seed of the white oxlip. 



