Plate 417. 

 TRICOLOR PELARGONIUM, ACHIEVEMENT. 



The great favour that has been and is still shown to this 

 most attractive class of plants has induced to give in the open- 

 ing number of a new volume a Plate of one of the very richest 

 coloured varieties that we have seen, and which, for freedom of 

 growth, combined with brilliancy of colouring, is unequalled, 

 some of those remarkable for the latter being deficient in the 

 former ; but in Achievement both are combined, and Mr. Turner 

 may well be congratulated on being the possessor of so valu- 

 able a variety. 



We had the opportunity in September of paying a visit to 

 those renowned nurseries at Slough from whence so many 

 valuable florists' flowers have gone forth to the floricultural 

 world ; we then saw a whole house devoted to the culture of 

 oold and silver Tricolor Geraniums, and it was a sight to 

 "ladden one's eyes. Mr. Turner has lately taken this class under 

 his care and we have no doubt will ere long show us such 

 specimens as have never before been seen. We have already 

 remarked that this class requires a much richer soil than the 

 ordinary zonals, that they rejoice in plenty of air and light, but 

 ought not to be exposed to scorching sun ; we may now add notes 

 of a few that we saw with Mr. Turner. Mrs. Headhj is a vigorous, 

 fine-o-rowing variety in the style of Mrs. Pollock, but brighter; 

 Mrs^ Hugh Berners, very bright zone, dark bronze marking, 

 and bright golden edge ; Mr. Butter, very vigorous, dark bronze 

 zone • Mademoiselle Christina Nillson, a very pretty variety, 

 carmine-red zone, shaded with bronze. Achievement, tlie plant 

 ficrured in our Plate, is, however, the cream of the set : the leaf 

 is%ery broad, centre light green, with a brilliant fiery crimson 

 zone irregularly blotched with deep blackish-bronze, and the 



