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autumn into the very bosom of winter, whose ice at length closes the 

 temple of Flora for a time, until the herald flowers of spring 

 appear amidst the melting snow, as if impatieut of delay. 



##**## Half-double Tassel-flowered ; with only half-double 

 flowers, and narrow elongated quilled petals ; often drooping, and some- 

 what resembling a tassel. 



44. Half-double Quilled White ; Semidouble Quilled White, Hort. Trans. 



V. 5. p. 138. A very tall robust variety. The flowers are among the 

 latest varieties, and more inclining to be single than usual, yet of too 

 late occurrence to ripen seeds with us. They are very large, and the 

 narrow quilled petals are very singularly waved, and as if pursuing 

 each other from right to left, making a pleasing and almost animated 

 appearance. 



45. Half-dojible Quilled Pink ; Semidouble Quilled Pink, Hort. Trans, v. 5. 



tab. 17.* (inferior figure) pi 157. and v. 5. p. 422. and v. 6. p. 351. 

 This variety grows rather tall, and flowers latish, but its flowers, 

 although but half-double, and only of the middle size, possess a degree 

 of graceful elegance and lovely hues peculiarly their own. It is at 

 present a rare variety. 



46. Half-double Bronze Buff; Pale Buff, Hort. Trans, v. 6. p. 334. Also 



called the Semidouble Pale Buff, and Reeve's Pale Buff, and 

 Quilled Buff, and the Buff. It is a very tall and free-growing variety, 

 and its half-double buft" large flowers, which in their early stages are 

 much bronzed, though of coarse hues, make a showy appearance, 

 and stand the weather better than all others, opening rather early, 

 and continuing late, until all the bronze is gone, having faded to a 

 dull buff: 



47. Half-double Quilled Orange ; Semidouble Quilled Orange, Hort. Trans, 

 v. 5. p. 412. and p. 422., and v. 5. tab. 17.* * (left-hand figure), and 

 V. 6. p. 352. A tallish plant, with but few large and almost single, 

 and also some neai'ly half-double, flowers, of good size, but making a 

 poor show. 



48. Half-double Pale Quilled Orange ; Semidouble Quilled Pale Orange, 



Hort. Trans, v. 6. p. 337. Also called Semidouble Deep Yellow. 

 Of the middle stature, with few and late flowers, of good size, but 

 comparatively poor appearance, on loosely drooping footstalks. 



Obs. The author has rejected the hybrid word semi-Aowh\e throughout 

 the paper. 



Art. XIV. On cultivating Cabbages by Slips or Cuttings. 

 By Peter Kendall, Esq. 

 Sir, 

 I OBSERVE you have noticed (Vol. VIII. p. 126.) a paper 

 read by J. Lindley, Esq., at the Horticultural Society's Meet- 

 ing, Dec. 6. 1831 ; upon the propagation of cabbages from 

 slips. 



I am anxious to draw the attention of the public to this 

 plan, which many years ago I saw practised in the Brazils, 

 and which I adopted on my return to England, and have 

 practised ever since. 



Early in the spring of 1831, I mentioned the subject to 

 Mr. Lindley, who seemed much pleased with it, having never 



