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and most showy kind, often measuring more than five inches over, and appearing 
rather early. It is one of the most desirable and free-growing of the whole collec- 
tion. 
36. The Quilled Yellow , Hort. Trans, vol. iv. p. 341. and vol. v. p. 420. This 
is a tall variety, with rather large flowers, of the middle season, or later, producing 
its blossoms in clusters at the top of the strong upright shoots. It is also known 
by the name of the Quilled Straw. 
37- The Late Quilled Yellow , Hort. Trans, vol. vi. p. 343. This has been called 
a very late and not very desirable variety in collections. It appears to me to be of 
the middle size, but it has not yet opened its blossom buds with me, not having 
long possessed it. 
38. The Large Lilac , Hort. Trans, vol. iv. p. 343. and vol. v. p. 420. Also 
called the Late Lilac, the New Lilac, and the Semi-double Purple. A very tall 
upright plant, bearing but few double large and clustered flowers at the summits 
of the branches, and those so late in appearance, that in cold seasons they cannot 
expand well, and are consequently in but little repute. I have only seen one plant 
in blossom, and that in my own garden. 
39. The Tasseled Lilac , Hort. Trans, vol. vi., p. 332. A middle-sized, or rather 
tall plant, of very great beauty, and one of the most desirable of the whole group, 
having very showy tassel-formed flow r ers, five inches or more in expanse, very 
numerous, early, and elegantly drooping from their weight, but they often show a 
disk. It is a likely variety to produce seeds of the most promising kind, but I have 
not hitherto heard of its ripening any in England. 
40. The Tasseled Purple , the Purple, Hort. Trans, vol. iv. p. 334. Has also been 
called the Old Purple, the Old Red, and the Quilled Purple, and is figured in the 
Rot. Mag. tab. 327* This is a very beautiful and rather early-flowering plant, of 
almost the middle size. The flowers are very numerous, gracefully drooping, and 
of middling size, and are at first of a reddish purple colour, but become paler by age* 
and in mild seasons will continue in succession from the end of October to the 
second week in January. It acquires the name of old, from being the first China- 
chrysanthemum that came to England in modern times, and bloomed at Mr. Colvill’s 
nursery, in Nov. 1795, but was said to be at Kew in 1790. The great horticultu- 
rist Miller certainly had one, or more likely two, of these Chinese or Indian chry- 
santhemums in cultivation at Chelsea long before ; but it is not yet quite satisfac- 
torily explained what sorts they were. See Hort. Trans, vol. iv. tab. 12, p. 326, and 
following. 
41. The Changeable Tasseled White , the Changeable White, Hort. Trans, vol.iv. 
p. 336, and vol. v. p. 419, and Rot. Mag. tab. 2042. It has also been called the Old 
White, being the first white-flowered variety known in our gardens. It is recorded 
in the Hort. Trans, to have been raised from a sporting branch of the preceding, and, 
indeed, resembles it in every thing but colour. It is a very graceful and elegant 
plant, and in warm situations its flowers are often more or less tinged or dotted with 
purple or blush colour. 
42. The Narrow Quilled White , the Quilled White, Hort. Trans, vol. iv; p. 337, 
and vol. v. p. 419. This rather slender variety is almost of the middle size> and has 
