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DUPLEX-TLOWERING MIMULUS. 
DUPLEX-FLOWEma IIITJLES. 
In introducing these extraordinary novelties, Mr. W. B. thinks he cannot do 
better than quote the able and lucid description given of them in the Gardeners’ 
Chronicle : — 
“ We have more than once had occasion to mention Mr. Bull’s strain of Mimuluses, and we have 
now to notice another perfectly new strain, with veritable duplex monkey-flowers, thorough hose-in-hose, 
as though the calyxj justifying the name, had taken to mimicking the corolla. In these remarkable 
curiosities the corolla exactly resembles some of the forms commonly known in gardens as Mimulus 
maculosus, but instead of the calyx being the usual form and green colour, this organ is converted into a 
coloured body almost exactly like the corolla in form, and, like it, brightly coloured and handsomely 
spotted. , 
“ Looking at Mimuluses as decorative plants, this new feature is a very great advantage. No one 
can doubt or dispute the beauty of some of the fine varieties of Mimulus, but the defect, from a garden 
point of view, is that the flowers drop too soon — the beauty is not enduring. Now, leaving out of question 
altogether the fact that the ornamental part of the plant is at once doubled in quantity, there remains 
the very important fact, that be the corolla ever so fleeting and evanescent, when it faUs, the plant to all 
intents and purposes remains in flower : the calyx is virtually in itself a flower so far as ornament is con- 
cerned, and this part docs not fall like the corolla, but lasts as long as its substance will endure. The 
great merit of the new race is, that the flowers, as represented by the outer of the two floral whorls, 
remain persistent for a period hitherto imknown among Mimuluses.” 
This new strain is perfectly hardy, so that the varieties are valuable alike for open 
garden and greenhouse decoration. 
These Mimuluses received a First Class Certificate when exhibited before the 
Floral Committee of the R yal Horticultural Society, and a similar award at the Royal 
Botanic Society’s Exhibition, Regent’s Park. 
A dozen of the most distinct varieties {as follows) have been selected, price 18s. per dozen, 
ANDERSONI. — Ground colour rich yellow, lower lobe blotched with deep crimson, the upper lobes and 
lower part of the throat beautifully spotted with a lightish pink. 
BRIGHTNESS. — Rich sulphur ground, intensely marbled or belted with a beautiful vermilion crimson. 
COQUETTE. — Cle ir pale primrose, the upper lobes having three or four distinct rosy crim.son spots, and 
the lower lobe handsomely blotched with a light maroon, thus giving the flower a novel and pleasing 
appearance. 
DIADEM. — A beautiful straw-coloured variety, the lobes blotched with rich carmine, while the lower 
part of the throat is intensely marbled with rosy pink, producing a striking effect. 
ECLAT. — Bright orange, lobes heavily blotched with a rich and very dark maroon, the lower part of the 
throat thickly spotted with a palish crimson. 
GLOWWORM. — Bright golden yellow, all the lobes heavily and largely blotched with a brilliant 
maroon, spotted throat, a very attractive vaiiety. 
HEROINE. — Ground colour citron, heavily blotched and regularly spotted wdth crimson maroon. The 
flowers of this variety are frequently edged and banded with light crimson. 
INCOMPARABLE. — Orange, prettily spotted and maculated with crimson, the lower lobe blotched with 
a glowing maroon. 
LIVELINESS. — Bright yellow, lobes blotched and pencilled with a very rich velvety crimson, and 
frequently banded with brownish red. 
NATIONAL. — Lemon, marbled with intense maroon roimd the lobes, the lower one blotched with deep 
crimson. 
ROYALTY. — A deep golden variety, the lower lobe prettily marbled with bronze and blotched with 
beautiful velvety crimson, the throat thickly studded with spots of the same hue, very showy and 
fine. 
WANDSWORTH. — Orange yellow ground, blotched on the lower lobe with dark vermilion, the upper 
lobes thickly spotted with the same colour. The throat also faintly spotted. 
MIMULUS MACULOSUS {syn- tigridioides pardina). 
Single flowering varieties of these can be supplied, variously blotched, spotted, and mottled, at 
Os, per dozen. 
