Common Orange-Flowered.
Flowers single, deep orange-yellow, high-flavored. It is considered the best variety for cultivation.
Lemon-Flowered.
This differs from the foregoing in the paler color of the flowers, which are also less aromatic. The plants are not distinguishable from those of the Common Orange-flowered.
Double Orange-Flowering.
Of the same color with the first named, but with fine, large, double ornamental flowers. The petals are flat, and rest in an imbricated manner, one on the other, as in some varieties of the Anemone. It is more productive, but less aromatic, than the Single-flowering.
Double Lemon-Flowering.
A variety of the second-named sort, with double flowers like those of the preceding.
To raise good seeds of either of the double-flowering kinds, all plants producing single flowers must be removed as soon as their character is known. When the single and double-flowering plants are suffered to grow together, the latter rapidly deteriorate, and often ultimately become single-flowering.
Childing, or Proliferous Marigold. Loud.