By Joseph Sabine, Esq. 



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less indented ; they are sometimes tinged with brown by the 

 weather. The flowers in the above named plant, and in others 

 similar to it, are uniformly semi-double ; they are the sorts 

 generally seen in collections. One especially, which I have 

 frequently noticed in the Chinese-house in the gardens of the 

 Earl of Essex, at Cassiobury, which was imported in 1813, 

 always has semi-double flowers. I have not heard that 

 any young plants have been raised in England from the seeds 

 of this, or of the succeeding. A good figure of the semi- 

 double Moutan Rosea has been recently published in Messrs. 

 Loddiges' Botanical Cabinet, tab. 1035. 



5. Pceonia Moutan Rosea Plena. A sub-variety of the 

 preceding, producing very double flowers, with similar foliage, 

 has come under my observation. Plants of it are in the 

 garden of the Horticultural Society, which were obtained 

 from Mr. Richard Williams, of Turnham Green, who pur- 

 chased the parent stock at the sale of the plants of George 

 Hibbert, Esq. of Clapham, at Mr. Joseph Knight's Nur- 

 sery, in 1811. The original was an imported plant, and was 

 obtained from China in 1795, as I have been informed, by Mr. 

 John Allen, who then lived gardener with Mr. Hibbert. 

 A figure of a blossom of this variety, from the Clapham collec- 

 tion, had been published in 1804, in the Botanist's Repository, 

 folio 373, with the name of Paeonia suffruticosa ; it is re- 

 presented as quite double, and described as nearly scentless. 

 It is also figured, and described by M. Bonpland in his 

 Plantes Rares, tah. 23, page 61. The flowers are as large as 

 those of the Banksii, of an uniform rich pink, though the 

 edges of the petals become paler after a time. The exterior 

 petals are large and broad, notched deeply in the centre, 



