. An encyclopædia of gardening; . -facturers and artisans near Manchester, Paisley, and other large towns. It is like thetulip, pink, &c., a poor mans flower, and a fine blow is rarely to be seen in the gardensof the nobility and gentry. 6340. 2he vaj-ieties are endless. The colors of the flower in its wild state.[re yellow, purjile, and the vellow, imiTile,red, scarlet, blush-coloVed, and brii^ht-red, most of which prevr in the Lon-don Hardens in his time. Parkinson,in lt>29, enumerates twenty Vturieties, and says many more were to befound. Rea, in IOi, has a
. An encyclopædia of gardening; . -facturers and artisans near Manchester, Paisley, and other large towns. It is like thetulip, pink, &c., a poor mans flower, and a fine blow is rarely to be seen in the gardensof the nobility and gentry. 6340. 2he vaj-ieties are endless. The colors of the flower in its wild state.[re yellow, purjile, and the vellow, imiTile,red, scarlet, blush-coloVed, and brii^ht-red, most of which prevr in the Lon-don Hardens in his time. Parkinson,in lt>29, enumerates twenty Vturieties, and says many more were to befound. Rea, in IOi, has an Increasednumber, classed as juirples, reds,yellows, and whites. In 1792, thecatalogue of J. Maddock containednearly .iOO named varieties, dividedinto ligiuiset, sel£s, or plain one-colored sorts, double flowers, and painted orvariegated sorts. The latter only areheld in esteem, and few collectionscontain more than two or three selftof the fundamental colors, and as manydouble flowers. Double varieties are notin esteem. 603. 6341. Criterion of a fine variegated auricula,(fig. 603. a, b, c, d, e) The stem should bestrong, erect, and elastic, and of a proper height,that the bunch or truss may be above the foliageof the plant. The peduncles, or foot-stalks, ofthe flowers should also be strong and elastic, andof a proportional length to the size and quantityof the pips, which should not be less than sevenin number, that the bunch may be rather round,close, and compact. The component parts ofthe pip are the tube (with its stamens and an-thers) ; the eye ; and the exterior circle contain-ing the ground-color, with its edge or margin :these three should be all w^ell proportioned,which will be the case if the diameter of thetube be one part, the eye three, and the wholepip six, or nearly so. All the admirers of thisflower agree that the pips ought to be round;but this seldoms happens; and w^e must be content if they are so nearly round as not tobe what is termedstai-ry. The anthers,
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