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reds, with deep red eyes ; whites, with 
rofy, Blue, purple, or yellow eyes; light 
blues, with deep blue or purple eyes; 
and yellow, with purple in the eye, &c, 
others again have their petals ftriped, or 
marked down the. centre, with a paler or 
deeper colour, which has a pleaiing effeH. 
It fometimes happens, and with fome 
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forts more frequently than others, that 
two Hems are produced from the fame 
root, one is generally conliderably taller 
and ftronger than the other; when this is 
the cafe, the weaker may be cut off near 
the ground, foon after it makes its ap¬ 
pearance, or fuffered to bloom, and its 
bells be intermixed with the lower ones of 
the taller Item, fo dextroufly as to appear 
like one regular pyramid of bells. 
On 
