Floricidtaral Memoranda. 



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calendulacea ; c. crocea, c. chry- 

 solecta, c. grandifldra, c. splendens ; 

 nudifldra alba, n. corymbosa; n. 

 crispa, n. globosa, n. mirabilis, n. 

 magnifica, n. papilionacea, n. rosea, 

 n. rubescens, n. staminea, n. v\o- 

 lacea, n. versicolor, n. versicolor 

 major ; tricolor, viscosa ; v. odo- 

 rata, v. crispa, v. vittata, v. pubes- 

 cens, v. rubescens j nitida, glauca, 



hispida, salicifdlia, coccinea, coc- 

 cinea major, concolor, spuria spe- 

 ciosa, cuprina, poincianifldra, prece- 

 dentior, mixta triumphans, nobilis, 

 venustissima, flaveola, praestantis- 

 sima,insignis, neplus ultra, venusta, 

 gloria mundi,speciosissima, Smiths, 

 Smithra coccinea, erythrae v a, Car- 

 ton/, Herbertidna, 



Art. VI. Floriculiural Memoranda. By Mr. T. Rivers, Jun., 

 Sawbridgeworth, Herts. 



White Sc/izzanthus, White Clar/aa, fyc. — I have long been 

 amused with the propensity which some flowers, after being intro- 

 duced to our gardens, show to vary in colour when propagated 

 by seed. To a man of leisure and observation, it would be worth 

 while to notice how many years, on the average, elapse before 

 this generally takes place. It reminds me much of the varied 

 hues of tame pigeons, tame rabbits, &c, so totally opposite to 

 the sober tints of their wild progenitors. 



The same season that the Potentilla Russellmwa came from 

 seed, being a regular hybrid between P. formosa and P. atro- 

 sanguinea, I had a seedling as nearly as possible the same, with- 

 out artificial aid. In the summer of 1833, after seeing, in IX. 

 465., a notice of Mr. Priest's white schizanthus at Reading, I 

 observed one here in a bed of seedlings, pure white, with the 

 yellow eye of the original. Clarkz'a pulchella has also sported 

 into purity; but, of all the freaks of nature, those displayed in the 

 georginas are the most wonderful. About twenty years since, I 

 remember my father purchasing some " very rare plants called 

 dahlias," of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy of Hammersmith : the 

 first season, though taken great care of, they would not bloom, 

 but put forth plenty of elder-like leaves, till the frost killed them ; 

 the next season they showed a few flowers, and, as is often the 

 case with novelties, gave all our brilliant anticipations a terrible 

 blow; for who could admire such dingy, copper-coloured, and 

 dull purple star-shaped flowers ? and who but the initiated could 

 suppose that all the brilliant and superb varieties now in cultiva- 

 tion could spring from such an origin ? 



Crocuses. — Nothing is perhaps more interesting than raising 

 seedling crocuses. They bloom in three years, and it is wonder- 

 ful to see the variety that will be found in one bed ; not only in 

 their colour, but in their time of flowering. Some of the varieties 

 have varied as much as six weeks, and thus produced a regular 

 succession of bloom. 



Roses. — Perhaps my taste maybe singular and formal, but 



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