Plate 46. 
VARIETIES OE CLARKIA. 
ClarMa pulchella , vars. 
Annual flowers, if not possessing the intrinsic value which 
attaches to many other popular classes of plants, have at least 
this recommendation, that they are not generally difficult of 
access; and hence they may be made to throw a gleam of that 
gorgeous effulgence which more permanent and more costly 
subjects impart to gardens of a higher class, across the humble 
plots of the cottager and the artisan, and they may also be made 
to cast in their mite to the treasury of summer beauties in 
many a suburban parterre. They are pre-eminently flowers for 
the million; and in very many cases, are not to be despised 
even by the millionaire. 
The Clarkia jpulchella has long been known as one of the 
more showy of the plants of this class, hardy in so far as regards 
its treatment as a border annual, requiring merely to be sown 
moderately thin, in spring, in tolerably good garden earth. This 
plant has shown considerable disposition to sport, and our plate 
represents some of the forms these variations have taken, for 
which we are indebted to Messrs. Carter and Co., seedsmen, of 
Holborn. 
The varieties now represented do not differ, either in habit or 
in the general characteristics of the plant, from the ordinary 
form of the species, and therefore these features need not be 
Plate 46.—Claekia pulchella, varieties 
Tig. 1 . integeipetala : petals entire on the margin, rosy-purple. 
Tig. 2. ptjlcheeeima : petals three-lobed as in the type, bright crimson- 
tinted rose. 
Tig. 3. steiata : petals three-lobed, white flaked with rose. 
Tig. 4. maeginata : petals three-lobed, rosy-purple, the lobes tipped 
with white. 
