Plate 30 . 
VARIETIES OE PETUNIA. 
Petunia nyctaginijlora et violacea , vars. 
There has recently appeared, among the varied garden forms 
of Petunia, a race having the flowers curiously blotched and 
painted with purple and white, these colours being often dis¬ 
tributed in very fantastic markings. The handsome fancy kinds 
shown in our Plate belong to this series. 
The variety called Eclipse is a seedling raised by Mr. G. 
Smith, of the Tollington Nursery, Hornsey Road. It was ex¬ 
hibited in July last at a meeting of the Horticultural Society’s 
Floral Committee, on which occasion it was commended as a 
fine decorative sort. The plant is of vigorous short-jointed 
growth, with broad leaves, and evidently belongs to the group 
of varieties retaining many of the characteristic features of P. 
nyctaginijlora. The flowers are large, three inches or more in 
diameter, and very freely produced. They have a large calyx, 
the lobes of which are an inch long, obovate, and rounded at 
the end. The narrow tube of the corolla is about an inch long, 
hairy externally ; and the segments of the limb, which are 
broad, overlapping, and somewhat undulating or wavy, spread 
out so as to form a flattish face. The colour is mottled mauve- 
purple and white, variously intermixed in different flowers: 
the most distinctly marked forms have on a white ground five 
broad bars or masses of purple radiating from the eye, the rest 
of the surface being traversed by a network of purple lines ; or 
else two or three of these purple bars become blended into a 
Plate 30. — Petunia, varieties :— 
Eig. 1. P. (nyctaginiflora) Eclipse : flowers large, blotched and pencilled 
with mauve-purple on a white ground. 
Eig. 2. P. (violacea) Annie Kien : flowers double, rich purple margined 
with white. 
