ones small, oblongly lanceolate, spreading, and fringed:
the three inner ones ovate, concave, membranaceous,
acute, strongly 3-nerved, the nerves very prominent,
and clothed with bunches of hairs, that are seated on
little tubercles. Flowers white, very double, a great
number of the stamens being turned into petals.
Our drawing of this pretty double variety, was taken
from a plant at the Nursery of Mr. J. Lee, at Hammersmith
; it is quite as hardy as the single variety, and
is well adapted for growing in rock-work, or in small
pots, mixed with the other species; by cutting off the
flower-stems as soon as the flowers* are dropped, will increase
the strength of the young shoots, and occasion
them to push out other racemes of flowers in succession
; so as to continue in bloom the greater part of the
Summer: young cuttings, planted under hand-glasses
in Spring-or Autumn, will strike root readily.
