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37. The Late Quilled Yelloiv, Hort. Trans, v. 6. p. 343. This has been 

 called a very late and not very desirable variety in collections. It 

 appears to be of the middle size, but it has not yet opened its blossom 

 buds with me, not having long possessed it. 



38. The Large Lilac, Hort. Trans, v. 4. p. 343. and v. 5. p. 420. Also 

 called the Late Lilac, the New Lilac, and the Semidouble Purple. 

 A very tall upright plant, bearing but few double large and clustered 

 flowers at the summits of the branches, and those so late in ap- 

 pearance, that in cold seasons they cannot expand well, and are con- 

 sequently in but little repute. I have only seen one plant in blossom, 

 and that in my own garden. 



39. The Tasseled Lilac, Hort. Trans, v. 6. p. 332. A middle-sized, or 

 rather tall, plant, of very great beauty, and one of the most desirable 

 of the whole group, having very showy tassel-formed flowers, five 

 inches or more in expanse, very numerous, early, and elegantly 

 drooping from their weight, but they often show a disk. It is a 

 likely variety to produce seeds of the most promising kind, but I have 

 not hitherto heard of its ripening any in England. 



40. The Tasseled Purple; The Purple, Hort. trans, v. 4. p. 334. Has 

 also been called the Old Purple, the Old Red, and the Quilled 

 Purple, and is figured in the Bot, Mag. tab. 327. This is a very 

 beautiful and rather early-flowering plant, of almost the middle 

 size. The flowers are very numerous, gracefully drooping, and of 

 middling size, and are at first of a reddish purple colour, but become 

 paler by age, and in mild seasons will continue in succession from the 

 end of October to the second week in January. It acquires the 

 name of Old from being the first China chrysanthemum that came to 

 England in modern times, and bloomed at Mr. Colvill's nursery, in 

 Nov. 1795, but was said to be at Kew in 1790. The great horti- 

 culturist Miller certainly had one, or more likely two, of these 

 Chinese, or Indian, chrysanthemums, in cultivation at Chelsea long 

 before ; but it is not yet quite satisfactorily explained what sorts 

 they were. See Hort. Trans, v. 4. tab. 12. p. 326. and following. 



41. The Changeable Tasseled White ; The Changeable White, Hort. Trans. 

 V. 4. p. 336. and v. 3. p. 419., and Bot. Mag. tab. 2042. It has also 

 been called the Old White, being the first white-flowered variety 

 known in our gardens. It is recorded in the Hort. Trans, to have 

 been raised from a spo . uig branch of the preceding, and, indeed, 

 resembles it in every th.ng but colour. It is a very graceful and 

 elegant plant, and in warm situations its flowers are often more or 

 less tinged or dotted with purple or blush colour. 



42. The Narroiv Quilled White ; The Quilled White,^ Hort. Trans, v. 4, 

 p. 337. and v. 5. p. 419. This rather slender variety is almost of the 

 middle size,and has the slenderest and most completely quilled florets, 

 and the earliest flowers, of the whole group, which hang in gracefully 

 drooping tassels, and form a strong contrast to the next in almost 

 every respect. 



43. The Great Tasseled While ; The Tasseled White, Hort. Trans, v. 4. 

 p. 339. and v. 5. p. 420. Has also been called the Expanded White. 

 This large, strong and broad, deep-green, shining-leaved variety is one 

 of the latest of all in blooming ; but its lovely flowers are larger and 

 more showy than those of any white-flowered variety, and endured 

 to the end of January, 1833, the date of the present paper. No 

 flower in this chilly climate stands the cold so well, or so long 

 continues to beguile the fancy of a florist by its protracted opening, 

 by its hardihood in expansion, and by the soft hue of its snowy 

 blossoms ; carrying on, as it were, the flowery beauty of lingering 



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