Plate 91. 
BOXJBLE-FLOWEBEB BEAUTIFUL CLARKIA. 
Clarhia pulchella , flore pleno. 
However much Botanists may admire single flowers, and 
consider double varieties as interfering with the simplicity of 
nature, there can be but very little question that to the flower- 
growing and flower-loving public the latter have greater 
charms; and when they have been originated, the single 
kinds very soon fall into the background ; the Double Zinnia 
will, ere long, completely drive out, we imagine, its single con¬ 
gener ; and so, should the Double Clarhia , which we now figure, 
become permanently fixed, the other varieties of pulchella will 
be little cared for. 
Our present figure was drawn by Mr. Andrews from the 
plant as it was grown by the Messrs. Carter, of Holborn, at 
their Nursery, Forest Hill; it was originated there, about eight 
years ago, and their object has been to fix the double character 
which it then presented. It sometimes happens that a flower 
which promises a move in that direction afterwards disappoints 
its owner, and, with that constant tendency to deteriorate or, 
if it is so willed, of running back to its original type, which 
characterizes all garden flowers, again becomes a single flower; 
it was not, therefore, until there seemed every probability of 
its m aintaining its character, that they ventured on exhibiting it; 
this they did at the Floral Committee of the Boyal Horticul¬ 
tural Society in last June, when it was awarded a first-class 
certificate, and is thus described in their Journal of Pro¬ 
ceedings :—“ This was a handsome variety of the deep rosy 
colour of the better forms of this well-known species, but 
having three or four whorls of petals developed as to form a 
tolerable full double flower. It was a very showy plant and 
w r as awarded a first-class certificate”—a proof of the estimation 
