Plate 122. 
WHITE-MARGINED CLARKIA. 
Clarhia pulchella (var. integripetala margined a). 
There are few annuals which seem to exhibit so sportive a 
character as the ClarJcia. We have already in the present vo¬ 
lume figured a very beautiful double variety, and we now have, 
through the courtesy of Messrs. Carter, the eminent seedsmen, 
of Holborn, the opportunity of adding to our Plates the pre¬ 
sent very chaste and elegant one, which has been originated 
by them at their seed-farms in Essex, and which will doubtless 
become a general favourite with all admirers of this pretty 
tribe. 
The very extended rage for what is called the “ bedding-out” 
system of gardening has led to the exclusion to a great extent 
of annuals from our parterres; but symptoms are not wanting 
to indicate that very probably ere long there will be a modifi¬ 
cation of that style. The great flatness of the beds and the 
sameness of colour have been strongly urged by those who have 
criticized of late the gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society 
at Kensington Gore, where the style is carried out under the> 
most favourable circumstances; and we may therefore confi¬ 
dently anticipate, that if any change is made, annuals will, 
some of them at least, be more sought after; for they do un¬ 
questionably supply a great variety of colour, and their various 
heights would tend to break the flatness which a continuous 
series of Geraniums, Calceolarias, Verbenas, etc., does produce. 
Whenever that is the case, some of the numerous varieties of 
ClarJcia will be greatly sought after. 
Few persons are however aware of the great extent to which 
annuals are grown. In a communication with which we have 
been favoured by Messrs. Carter, we are informed that they 
have about one hundred and seventy acres under flower-seeds 
