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Sketch Plan of Belmont. — See page 326. 



shape and size of the thyi'sus. These varieties are Renoncute, 

 Rubella Plena, Mathieu de Donibasle and Le Gaulois. An 

 attempt was made as soon as these different varieties fiowered 

 to get seeds from them, and the old 5. azurea plena was dis- 



carded as a seed-bearer. The best single-flowered varieties 

 with flowers of different shapes and colors were used to cross 

 with the new double-flowered race, and pollen from the flowers 

 of S. Chinensis, even, was tried ; but this last experiment pro- 



