Plate 8.') 7. 



DOUBLE-FLOAVERED PELARGONIUM, PRINCE 

 OF NOVELTIES. 



It is difficult to say what direction the results of hybridizing 

 in this universally popular class of flowers is likely to take. 

 We have seen the most marvellous changes in the leaf-colouring, 

 and the introduction of novel colours into the flowers of the 

 zonal section. And then already in such varieties as Gloire de 

 Nancy and Triomphe de Lorraine, double flowers have made 

 their appearance ; and now, in tlie case of the variety we now 

 figure, we have, in the larger-flowered section, the production 

 of the same results, — the commencement of a change it is im- 

 possible to foresee the end of 



The Prince of Novelties is in the possession of Messrs. E. G. 

 Henderson and Son, of Wellington Eoad, St. John's Wood, to 

 whom we are indebted for the opportunity of figuring it, and is 

 being distributed by them this autumn. We cannot do better 

 than give their description of it. They speak of it as "A very 

 beautiful and remarkable novelty, differing from the ordinary 

 class of Pelargoniums by the usual upper and lower petals, of 

 unequal outline, being transformed into a flat, circular ray of 

 equal-sized petals, forming a diameter in each flower of about 

 an inch and three-quarters in width, and filled up in the centre 

 with small petaloid segments, or flower-lobes. . . . These in- 

 dividual blossoms are produced in trusses of from three to six 

 or nine each, according to the vigour of the plant. The general 

 colour is brilliant carmine tinted crimson, bounded with a 

 blush-white margin, each petal being marked at the base with 

 a dark rich crimson blotch, from which netted lines run over 

 the carmine surface. Its style of growth shows a neat, free, 

 and robust branching habit and flowering in small or medium- 



