370 JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
{ November 14, 1878. 
Rose. In the bud state they last a long time cut. It is a con- 
tinuous and free bloomer, and in our case sows itself. Now 
The new variety 
Messrs. Carter & Co. distributed is a good companion to the 
and again plants stand over the winter. 
normal species. 
Fig. 57.—ESCHSCHOLTZ!\ CROCEA FLORE-PLENO. 
will prove as useful to gardeners as its parent is somewhat 
problematical. P. BROTHERSTON. 
[For affording cut flowers especially, and for garden deco- 
vation generally, the new double Eschscholtzia crocea flore- 
pleno raised by Messrs. James Carter & Co. merits notice. It 
is very distinct, the flowers being of good substance and reddish 
orange in colour. The accompanying engraying is a truthful 
representation of the flowers as exhibited before the Floral 
Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society, who granted 2 
first-class certificate to this variety last year.—EDs. ] 
CENOTHERAS 
THE Evening Primroses are a showy if not very refined class 
of plants, and they enjoy much popularity on account of the 
great size of their flowers and from these appearing in their 
Hither the seed had not been carefully 
selected or the “Mandarin” is not yet fixed in a variety, for 
in our case quite 50 per cent. of the produce of the seed 
packet proved the old crocea. Whether Eschscholtzia Mandarin 
