The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florists' Magazine: January to December, 1850 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florists' Magazine: January to December, 1850

The most vigorous plants are now, in the midst of November, in 11 bloom, and afford an exceedingly charming aspect. I have caused a drawing to be made, and shall have it lithographed and coloured so as to give amateurs an idea of this splendid acquisition. Though the white colour itself, considered apart, is not the most brilliant amongst flowers, yet among the Achimenes, which are already cultivated en masse in greater towns by amateurs on account of their beautiful effect, only the lilac and violet-blue colours in the large-blossomed specimens have heretofore predominated. But since last year, owing partly to new importations, partly to the production of hybrids, larger flowers in orange, carmine, scarlet, and pink have appeared. All these brilliant colours will now be exceedingly enhanced by the above mentioned new, large-blossomed, strikingly handsome white species with carmine-red stellated centre.

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