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Yellow and the King’s Yellow. A very tall, handsome, and free- 
flowering variety. The flowers are early and of a high rich yellow 
colour, hut bronzed or orange in the buds and on their outsides. 
This is one of the best to grow as a standard, and if parted at the 
root, and annually transplanted, succeeds very well as a herbaceous 
plant, especially if in a warm or sheltered situation, duly supported 
by a stick. 
27. The Superb Clustered Yellow, Hort. Trans, vol. v. p. 156, 
and vol. v. p. 421, and Sweet’s Brit. FI. Gard. tab. 14. One of the 
finest and tallest of the group, being higher than the preceding, and 
with more clustered and more neatly formed pure yellow flowers, but 
they are later in opening. 
28. The Golden Lotus-flowered, Hort. Trans, vol. vi. p. 340. A 
very splendid and large long-leaved variety, and nearly or quite the 
tallest of this genus of plants, having late, pure, and deep yellow 
flowers, above the middle size, and larger than those of any other 
yellow kind of the marigold form, and which partially endure until 
the heavier frosts of winter destroy them. 
29. The Changeable Pale Buff, Hort. Trans, vol. vi. p. 380, and 
tab. 3; also called the Pale Cluster. This plant, when flowering as 
perfectly as it is represented on the above cited table, is one of the 
most showy and splendid of the group; but this has not been the 
case during the autumn of 1832; and all the flowers, and in various 
gardens, which met the writer’s eye, being as it were degenerated 
into almost buff-coloured and spuriously quilled flowers, of more up¬ 
right appearance than the large, expanded, flat-petaled, and variega¬ 
ted purple-whitish and yellow-bufly ones, so charmingly depicted in 
the figure cited. They are of the middle season. 
30. Starry Changeable Purple , the Starry Purple, Hort. Trans, 
vol. vi. p. 339. This beautiful plant is one of the most variable- 
flowered in the genus; its very late flowers first opening of a purple 
colour, with the exterior petals at first few in number, starry, and 
paler, especially at their spoon-shaped tips; soon, however, becoming 
still more pale, until the whole well-expanded and very double blossom 
becomes regularly more blush-coloured and white than purple, and is 
a very fine, well-formed, variegated flower. The stature of the plant 
is of a middle size, but its remarkable leaves are much more lacinated 
than usual, and often broader in their outline than long, which is 
not the case with any other in the group, and of very considerable 
size: wherefore I conceive it may be a distinct species from all the 
others. 
31. The Late Purple, the Late Pale Purple, Hort. Trans, vol. v. p. 
