This section is from "The Horticulturist, And Journal Of Rural Art And Rural Taste", by P. Barry, A. J. Downing, J. Jay Smith, Peter B. Mead, F. W. Woodward, Henry T. Williams. Also available from Amazon: Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste.
A fine greenhouse shrub, with large bright green glossy leaves. Japan.
A beautiful novel variety, having, large white wavy flowers, as in crispiflora, marked with few broad streaks of bright red. A Belgian variety.
A beautiful vigorous-growing variety of excellent properties, said to have been raised from Barclayana, fertilized with Criterion; flowers rich salmon, margined irregularly with white, and occasionally striped with carmine, the upper segments densely spotted with crimson. A garden variety.
Flowers large, of a light rosy Balmon, with rich crimson spots on all the lobes, and a tuft of petaloid stamens in the centre. A Belgian variety.
Flowers large, round lobed, white, with a delicate rose-colored mark in the centre of each lobe, forming an elegant star-like centre, and having lines of carmine spots on the upper segments. A Belgian variety.
A Belgian variety, flowers large, rich rose-color, the upper lobe spotted with crimson; a tuft of petaloid stamens in the centre.
A robust-habited variety, with large flowers of excellent form, and of a lively rose-color, thickly spotted on the upper segments. A garden variety.
Flowers large, white, striped and spotted all over with rose-color. A Belgian variety.
 
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