and others of different shades of vellow. 
(I was g-oing to say folly) has in a 
great measure banished these self coloured 
flowers from our modern stages. I own I 
cannot pay so great a regard to fashion as to 
remove these smiling beauties, for in my opi- 
nion a collection intended for a stage is far 
from being complete without them ; they are 
certainly very charming in themselves, and 
serve, if properly disposed on the stage, to 
contrast and set off the beauties of the painted 
flowers. 
The painted or striped sorts are almost 
without number, every year producing many 
seminal varieties, and from the various tints 
and colours in the stripes of the flowers, one 
might suppose they, had stolen their beauties 
from every other flower in the garden. 
Botanists in general agree, that the stripes 
of different colours, which appear both in the 
plants and flowers, proceed from distemper and 
weakness ; and in support of this opinion they 
say, that whenever plants alter thus in their 
coloui*s, and become variegated, they do not 
grow so large, and are more tender and less 
capable of enduring the cold. I shall not at- 
tempt to controvert so received an opinion ; 
but every day’s experience convinces me that 
