DUPLEX-FLOWERING MIMULUS. 
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DUPLEX-FLOWERING MIMULUS. 
In introducing those extraordinary noveltios, Mr. W. 13. thinks he cannot do 
better than quote the able and lucid description given of them in the Gardeners' 
Chronicle : — 
“ Wo ha y° moro tha ' 1 0U00 haa occasion to mention Mr. Bunn’s strain of Mimuluses, and we have 
now to notice another perfectly new strain, witli veritable duplex monkey-flowors, thorough hoso-in- 
hoso, as though the calyx, justifying the name, had taken to mimicking the corolla. In these re- 
markable curiosities the corolla exactly resembles some of the forms commonly known in gardens as 
Mimulus maoulosus, but instead of the calyx being tho usual form and green colour, this organ is con- 
verted 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 disputo the beauty of some of tho lino varieties of Mimulus, but the defect, "from a war- 
den point of view, is that tho flowers drop too soon— the beauty is not enduring. Now, leaving out 
of question altogether tho 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 
falls, the plant to all intents and purposes remains in flower : tho calyx is virtually in itself a flower 
so far as ornament is concerned, and this part does not fall like the corolla, but lasts as long as its 
substance will endure. The great merit of tho new race is, that the flowors, as represented by the 
outer of tho two floral whorls, remain persistent for a period hitherto unknown 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 tho Royal 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 12 s. per dozen. 
ANDERSONI, ground colour rich yellow, lower lobo 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 crim- 
son 
COQUETTE, clear pale primrose, the upper lobes having three or four distinct rosy crimson spots 
and the lower lobe handsomely blotched with a light maroon, thus giving tho 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, tho 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 variety 
HEROINE, ground colour citron, heavily blotched and regularly spotted with crimson maroon. 
The flowers of this variety arc frequently edged and banded with light crimson 
INCOMPARABLE, orange, prettily spotted and maculated with crimson, the lower lobo 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 round the lobes, tho lower one blotched with 
deep crimson 
R0YALTY ’ f tleep ? oUlen variety , tho lower lobo prettily marbled with bronze, and blotchod with 
beautiful velvety crimson, the throat thickly studded with spots of tho same hue ; very showy and 
WANDSWORTH, orange yollow ground, blotched on the lower lobo with dark vermilion, the upper 
lobes thickly spotted witji tho same colour ; tho throat also faintly spotted. 
MIMULUS MACULOSUS (*iw- tigiidioides pardina). 
Single-flowering varieties of these can be supplied, variously blotched, spotted, and mottled, at 
9-v. per dozen. 
