mention a few which are in cultivation ; some of 
which have been raised from seeds in British gar- 
dens, and others imported. 
1, Vestalis, with purplish foliage, and white flowers 
of eight petals. 
2, Candida, with dark-green foliage, and flesh- 
coloured flowers also of eight petals. 
3, Tartarica, with purplish foliage ; flesh-coloured 
flowers, having from niue to fourteen petals. 
4, Sibirica, with pale-green foliage, and completely 
white flowers. 
5, Bubescens, with narrow purplish foliage, and 
reddish flowers of eight petals. 
C, Uniflora, with narrow purplish foliage, and white 
flowers of eight petals. 
7, Whitleji, with foliage somewhat wrinkled, and 
double flowers, having blush petals outside, 
and pale straw-coloured ones within. 
8, Humei, with dark-green wrinkled foliage, and 
very double red flowers. 
9, Fragrans, with wrinkled narrow pale-green foli- 
age, and double rose-coloured flowers. 
10, Pottsii, with narrow dark foliage, and dark 
crimson semi-double rather small flowers. 
11, lleevesii, (that now published) with dark foliage, 
and very double rose-coloured flowers, shaped 
nearly as an anemone. 
This explanation will give our readers a tolerably 
clear view of the variation that has arisen among 
the seedlings of a single species. 
It should be known that most of the double- 
flowering Paeonies will produce seed, if fertilized 
by pollen from single ones. 
