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THE MANUAL OF GARDENING. 
bous and hardy: the common Daffodil is one, which see. The 
paper white is admired for its delicately white flowers, and grows 
to a foot and a half high. The Jonquil is another variety, and is 
very sweet scented ; it sends up an elegant and slender stalk, ten 
or twelve inches high, bearing a bunch of bright yellow flowers. 
The Polyanthus Narcissus, has three varieties: one pure white, 
one white with a yellow cup in the middle, and another all yel- 
low, producing abundance of flowers: they are all cultivated in 
a similar manner to other hardy bulbs, but should be taken up 
once in two or three years for dividing the off-sets from the roots, 
and be re-planted immediately. v 
Onothera, Evening Primrose . — Avery pretty biennial, which 
in the evening blows a fine yellow flower from July to Septem- 
ber. It must be sown in the spring, where it is to blossom the 
following year. Any soil will do; but it prefers good garden 
mould. 
Pjeonia. — T he Pioney, as it is called, has been much extended 
in variety within a few years, and European collections contain 
many which have not yet reached this country. The tree or 
hard-wooded variety, P. arborea, or Moutan, its Chinese name, 
is a beautiful plant, and in a favourable situation in dry soil, is 
magnificent. No plant can be a more gorgeous ornament of the 
garden, than a well-grown specimen of this kind, abounding as 
it does in leaves, striking from their branched character and nu- 
merous segments, and its very magnificent flowers of extraordi- 
nary size. A specimen in England, planted soon after its intro- 
Auction from China, (they being then worth ten guineas each j 
around Philadelphia, they may now be had for a dollar,) has be- 
come a bush 14 feet in diameter, and has in some seasons borne 
one thousand flowers. It thrives best in moderately dry rich 
loam, is perfectly hardy, but being an early bloomer, has the 
flowers sometimes discoloured by frost. It will therefore be well 
to have a movable shelter at hand, to apply if necessary, when 
the buds are expanding. P. whitleyii, fragrans, and humeii are 
herbaceous varieties of merit; the first is of a rich creamy white, 
the petals edged with blush, the fragrans is rose-coloured, and 
yields a delightful perfume. They flower freely, and withstand 
the winter in any soil. There are others which may be had 
from most florists; as the corallina , cherry-red ; tenuifolia, Jine- 
leaved ; albaflora simplex, single-white ; humilis , dwarf-rose ; 
<fc., which are quite desirable. , 
Primula, Polyanthus or Primrose . — 'This is a beautiful flow- 
er, either for the border, or to be kept in a pot ; they are all 
dwarf Alpine plants valuable in horticulture. The varieties are 
very numerous, varying in price, in England, from a pound to a 
shilling. It is managed much in the same way as the Auricula. 
