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SANGUINEUM FLORE PLENO. 
It t4| (pears tliat the merit of putting cultivators in possession ot this vaiuab 
addition to our hardy spring-flowering shrubs is due to Mr. David Dick, garden] 
to the Right Honourable the Earl of Selkirk, at St. Mary’s Isle, Kircudbrigfi 
who discovered it in a collection of seedlings raised in the Isle Garden. Mr. M‘N;i 
has favoured us with the annexed remarks on its origin, taken from a lett 
addressed to him by Mr. Dick, last April : — 
“ The seed I have no doubt was ripened in the Isle Garden, where they fn 
abundantly, and was sown by some one of my predecessors. When I came hei 
I found about one hundred seedling plants standing close together, none appearij 
to have flowered. During 1839 I had them planted out, and, on their flowerir 
the double variety was detected. I did not observe any approach to a doul 
flower on any other individual of that stock; nor even the least tendency to, 
multiplication of parts on any of the numerous seedlings since raised. Amon^i, 
those obtained at the same time with the double one, several distinct shacji 
occur; many have also a tendency to produce larger racemes than the origiil 
species. I have generally found the double variety three weeks later in flowerir 
than the common varieties cultivated here.” | 
Blooming as it does at the very time when flowers are so much want 
especially in metropolitan gardens, and the parent species being so well known.!; 
needs no eulogium of ours to gain it a favourable reception : every one can imag i 
how much more showy the double flower must be than the single. To the list If 
forcing flowers, it will also be an addition of some importance. 
