. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. G400. Varieties. The stemless white Crimson Hose-in-hose Purple Lilac Scotch White Yellow Brimstone. 6401. The cowslip (P. veris, L. (Eng. Bot, 5.) Primel, Fr. and Schlusselblame, Ger.) (fig. 60S.) is distinguished from the primrose, by smelling more str
. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. G400. Varieties. The stemless white Crimson Hose-in-hose Purple Lilac Scotch White Yellow Brimstone. 6401. The cowslip (P. veris, L. (Eng. Bot, 5.) Primel, Fr. and Schlusselblame, Ger.) (fig. 60S.) is distinguished from the primrose, by smelling more strongly of anise, by shorter leaves, and by an umbel with a leafy involucrum. It is a native plant, and found in moist pastures, in open situations, flowering in May. 64-02. Varieties. Both double and single varieties are in esteem; but the plant has not been so much cultivated as the primrose. Gibbs, nursery- man, Brompton, has lately raised a great many very beautiful varieties from seed, differing in color, magnitude of the umbel, and in some being double, and in the hose-in-hose form. " May 19th, 1818, Gibbs sent a large col- lection of flowers of varieties of the common cowslip, from his garden at Brompton. He had raised them from the seed of plants, originally derived from the wild cowslip, which had sported into varieties, and by frequent re- production had attained their present excellence. The changes that have taken place are in the magnitude of the trusses, and the size and color of the flowers; the selection appearing to have been from the darker hues, though some paler flowers were in the collection. However great the vari- ation was in the points alluded to, yet none of the specimens appeared to have lost the general character and appearance of cowslip, not running either into the oxlip or the primrose ; but some of them had become what florists term hose-in-hose, which appears to be the conversion, more or less, of the calyx, into the appearance of the coroll
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