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geranium. The Cyclamens are also very fine for winter, but they 

 are lazy fellows and want to sleep all summer. 



I find the following geranmms good winter bloomers : ' • White 

 Vesuvius, Emile de Girardin, rose; Mad. Thiebaut, carmine 

 violet ; Guillion Mangelle, carmine crimson ; Henry Cannell, fine 

 scarlet ; Lemoine Cannell, rich amaranthine red marked purple : 

 Eepresentant Gaudin, deep velvety crimson." These are also good 

 for bedding out, except the first, which is single. I cannot find a 

 single geranium that is fit for bedding out. Queen of the West is 

 as good as any to hold its flowers, but every shower spoils it for a 

 few days. To make a geranium bed interesting, one should have at 

 least fifty varieties, and get something new every year. I mean 

 new to those who get them, as most of the new high priced plants 

 are not as good as many of the old ones. So if you raise fifty 

 seedlings, some of them will be good, and every one of interest 

 till after it has bloomed. 



It is impossible to tell colors from catalogue descriptions. 

 Robert George is called more decided in color than Deputy Taflize, 

 while it is lighter and only a shade darker than H. Cannell. 

 Richard Brett is called "very double ;" still it is not near as double 

 as McLeod, and is a coarse grower, a poor variety. I did not take 

 it up. Prokop Danbeck is called pure soft rose, while it is nearly 

 i(ientical with Leon Simon, Avhich is described as red flamed with 

 salmon. Remarkable, a much improved Earnest Lauth, with me 

 is not as good. La Constitution is lighter than Asa Gray and not 

 as good, while Mrs. E. G. Hill is better than either. I have had 

 two varieties for Mr. Chas. Pease, but neither was as good as Mad. 

 Thiebaut. 



Lemoine Cannell and Charles Darwin are much alike. Both 

 might have come from the same parent. One description answers 

 for both, only the flrst is a shade darker, which can only be told by 

 holding them together. Their amaranthine red and purple give us 

 a new color for the geranium, and are very welcome. — Gardener's 

 Monthly. * 



