of the Varieties of the Pansy in Cultivation. 427 



be paid to soil, situatioiij and often transplanting, as young plants are always 

 found to produce the finest-marked and largest blooms. 



" Soil and Situation. — Pansies delight to grow in a cool shady situation, and 

 in a light, rich, loamy soil. A composition of good loam, enriched either with 

 rotten dung, leaf, or vegetable mould, will grow them in the highest perfection : 

 yet they will grow and bloom abundantly in any good garden soil. But 

 by proper soil, often transplanting, and due attention to shadmg, situation, and 

 watering, you may have a succession of fine large blooms for nine months in 

 the year." (p. 16.) 



Every one knows that pansies are easily propagated by cut- 

 tings, slips, layers, and seeds. 



The History of the Pajisy as a Florisfs Flonsoer. — Under the head 

 of history of the pansy, our authors have only given descriptions, 

 with the exception of the remark, that heartsease was represented 

 by old writers as a powerful medicine, &c. ; and that Mr. Lee 

 of Hammersmith brought the choice varieties into cultivation. 

 To supply this defect in No. I., we give the following, which has 

 been communicated to us by a friend on whom we can place the 

 utmost reliance : — 



" The great beauty and variety of the 7^iola tricolor, now cul- 

 tivated under the name of heartsease, pansies, Stc, may be suf- 

 ficient excuse for the following short remarks: — The first mention 

 I have met with of pansies, or three faces under a hood (which 

 latter is no inappropriate name), is in some manuscript papers 

 which have passed through my hands, relating to the manage- 

 ment and contents of Sayes Court Garden in Surrey, by the 

 celebrated Evelyn, written in 1687, where pansies are enu- 

 merated in the list of ' coronary flowers for the parterre and 

 borders.' 



" From that period, up to about 1810 or 1812, there appears 

 to have been little attention paid to their culture; and, per- 

 haps, the only varieties that occurred during that period were 

 such as arose accidentally, and passed unnoticed, being less 

 interesting than the original species Fiola tricolor. So far as 

 my hiformation extends, I believe that the following may be 

 considered as the commencement of their cultivation in distinct 

 varieties. 



" About the period above noticed, Lady Monke, then Lady 

 Mary Bennet, had a little flower-garden in the grounds of her 

 father, the late Earl of Tankerville, at Walton, who was a zeal- 

 ous cultivator of plants. In this latter garden was a figure of a 

 heart, into which this amiable lady used to plant the varieties of 

 pansies, which she accidentally discovered growing in her father's 

 garden. Aided by the industry and zeal of Mr. Richardson, then 

 and still gardener at Walton, several pretty varieties were raised 

 or discovered, and transplanted to this little parterre. In 1813 

 or 1814, several distinct and striking varieties were thus obtained ; 

 and these having attracted the notice of the late Mr. James Lee 

 of Hammersmith, he, availing himself of the intercourse then 



