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THE LADIES’ FLOWER-GARDEN 
bush or'tuft of leaves and flowers produced. The plants of Flos Adonis , which are pulled up in thinning, may be 
thrown away, as they rarely succeed when transplanted. The plants being naturally stiff and bushy, they will 
not require either pruning or training; but as to look handsome they should have plenty of room to spread on 
every side, the plants left after thinning should be as far from each other as possible ; and a space of at least a 
foot or eighteen inches should be left clear round the patch. After this, they will need no other culture than 
an occasional watering if the weather should be very dry. As the Flos Adonis will stand the winter perfectly 
well, the time of sowing may depend on the time when it is wanted to flower. If sown in September, it will 
be in full flower by the middle or end of April ; and if sown again in March, say the first week, it will come 
into flower about midsummer. If some seeds are sown on light soils in wet weather in July, they will flower 
from October to February if the weather be mild. Seeds may be procured at any seed-shop. 
OTHER ANNUAL KINDS OF ADONIS. 
These as before observed are all probably only varieties of A. autumnalis; and the only one of them, the 
name of which is to be found in nurserymen’s catalogues, is A. cestivalis , the summer-flowering Pheasant’s Eye. 
A. vernalis , a pretty dwarf plant with large handsome yellow flowers, is marked in many catalogues as an 
annual, but it is a perennial. 
2.—A. AESTIVALIS, Lin. ; A. A. MINIATA, Jacq. ; A. MACULATA, Wallr.,— 
has the stem elongated and the flowers on footstalks. It flowers rather sooner than the common kind ; 
but as the flowers are much smaller, and as the long unbranched stem has a straggling untidy appearance, it 
is not worth cultivating. It is a native of England, and also of the continent of Europe, but it is not so common 
as A. autumnalis. 
3_A. MICROCARPA, Dec. 
This is a dwarf plant with orange-coloured flowers, and numerous very small carpels. It is a native of 
Spain, and also of the island of Teneriffe, whence it was brought to this country in 1824. It is a neat 
bushy little plant, flowering in June and July, and is well deserving of cultivation, but it is very seldom found 
in British gardens. 
4_A. CITRINA, Hoff., 
has the stem not branched, and the flowers small and yellow It is a native of France, and was introduced 
into England in 1819 ; but it was soon lost in this country, and has not been thought worth a re-introduction. 
5.—A. FLAMMEA, Murr., 
has flame-coloured flowers, which are not so cup-shaped as those of the common kind. It is a native of 
Austria, and was introduced into England in 1800, but it does not appear to have been much cultivated. 
In addition to these kinds which have been introduced into Britain, we may mention one, which, though it 
has not yet been introduced, appears well worthy of so being. This is called A. dentata ; it has yellow petals 
with black claws (the claw is the part that is nearest the stalkl, and the carpels are toothed, or rather crested, on 
