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THE GARDENING WORLD 
March 4, 1899. 
GODETIA DUNNETTI COMPACTA. 
The Godetias are most closely allied to the Evening 
Primroses, being, in fact, generally included under 
the same generic name of Oenothera by modern 
botanists. The finer forms grown in gardens are 
mostly improved forms of Oe. Whitneyi, introduced 
from California in 1870, and at once recognised as a 
highly ornamental subject for garden decoration. It 
is figured in the Botanical Magazine, t., 5,867, an< ^ ^e 
original type grew to a height of 1 ft. to ft. The 
tendency has been to select dwarfer varieties as well 
as those having larger and more richly-coloured 
flowers. The variety under notice is of dwarf and 
compact habit, with the large, open flowers carried 
erect and closely crowded together. A bed or mass 
of it is therefore very effective during the summer 
months; and though it. flowers freely enough in 
sandy soil, the plants are more durable and the 
flowers more continuously produced when grown in 
soil of a richer and more retentive nature. The 
flowers of Godetia Dunnetti compacta are bright 
rose, with a satiny gloss, and furnished with a 
large crimson blotch on the base of each of the four 
petals. On good soil this new variety makes a bushy 
specimen about a foot high, and surmounted by a 
profusion of its large and showy flowers. The ac¬ 
company illustration was lent us by Messrs. J. Carter 
& Co., High Holborn, London. 
CLARKIA MINIMA ALBA. 
Clarkias, represented by Clarkia pulchella and C. 
elegans, have long been favourite annuals in gardens 
on account of their graceful habit, lack of formalTty, 
and pleasing light shades of colour. In different soils 
they vary from 1 ft. to 2 ft. or more in height, particu¬ 
larly in wet seasons. C. elegans is usually the more 
rampant grower. The new variety under notice is a 
dwarf selection of C. pulchella, so that the full name 
should be C. pulchella minima alba. The flowers 
are white, and the three-lobed petals characteristic 
of the type are present here, reminding what exists 
in a more highly developed form in Eucharidium 
grandiflorum. There is another variety of thisdwarf 
race, namely C. p. minima lilacma, having lilac 
flowers, and other colours are likely to be developed 
in the near future. The dwarf, branching and bushy 
habit of this new race will make the varieties very 
useful for edging purposes. The habit is well por- 
only requiring to be sown out of doors in April, or a 
little earlier or later, according to the time it is 
desired to have them ia bloom. They should bs 
thinned out to 4 in. from plant to plant, at the very 
least, and their flowering will be proportionately 
extended. 
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CANNA VARIEGATA. 
Originally grown as a foliage plant, the Canna was 
next boomed as a flowering subject, and now again 
we are reminded of the decorative value of its 
foliage. The Canna is a plant of many parts, and 
whether grown for flower or foliage effect it may 
gated Canna has arisen (imported from the Solomon 
Islands), and finds a place in the list of novelties for 
1899 offered by Messrs. Robert Veitch & Son, Exeter, 
who have given us this opportunity of figuring it. 
The variegation is well brought out in the illustra¬ 
tion, and the plant is, moreover, shown to be of 
dwarf habit, and decidedly more spreading than 
most of the other forms in cultivation. The leaves, 
too, are broad and substantial, and display an ex¬ 
ceedingly effective combination of three colours, for 
the ground colour is deep green, and it is heavily 
barred and splashed with yellow and crimson, and 
margined with a band of the last named hue. The 
Clarkia minima alba. 
Canna variegata. 
Godetia Dunnetti compacta. 
trayed in the accompanying illustration, placed at our 
disposal by Messrs. J. Carter & Co., High Holborn, 
Londors, who give a considerable amount of attention 
to annuals. The Clarkias are of the easiest culture, 
generally be relied on to acquit itself to the satisfac¬ 
tion of its possessor. 
Hitherto shades of green and deep purple-maroon 
only, have been forthcoming, but at last a real varie- 
flowers, which are produced in bold and handsome 
spikes, are fiery-scarlet in colour, so that the plant 
combines in itself both foliage and floral effect. 
It may easily be raised from seeds, which must, 
