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glabrous branches, and somewhat fleshy elliptic-lanceolate leaves. The flowers 

 are in umbels, like terminal clusters, a score or upwards being together. Each 

 flower is curved, three inches long, of an orange-colour below, deepening into 

 a rich vermilion upwards, with a triangular blotch of deep purple crimson or 

 maroon inside. This is a hybrid, and is an acquisition to this tribe of plants ; 

 it wiis raised by Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., Exeter, from .E. speciosus 

 fertilised by JE. grandiflorus ; and it possesses the abundant flowering habit and 

 erect growth of the former, and in brilliancy of colour and marking it even 

 exceeds the latter. Figured in the Magazine of Botany for December, 



Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. J. Houlston. 



PINK OPTTMA. 



The accompanying coloured representation was taken from a bloom 

 of this Pink exhibited at the National Floricultural Society's meet- 

 ing on the 26th of June, where it received the highest award the 

 Society offers, viz. a first-class certificate. Twelve blooms were 

 put up on this occasion ; twenty-two were also shewn at the June 

 show held in the Surrey Zoological Gardens ; and twenty-four at 

 the July exhibition of the Botanic Society in Regent's Park, where 

 it received similar awards. It was raised by the late Mr. Hastings 

 of Oxford ; after whose decease it passed into the hands of Air. 

 Turner, with the right of naming it. We cannot perhaps pay this 

 tine variety a higher compliDient than by stating that the figure is a 

 correct representation of the flower. 



It is a free bloomer ; so much so in fact, that but little increase 

 can be obtained. It is a sure lacer, and will carry three or four blooms 

 on a plant. The whole of the stock has been disposed of. 



VERBENA ORLANDO (Smith). 



This variety was exhibited to and received a certificate from the 

 National Floricultural Society. In colour it is lilac blue. It is of 

 the same class as Mrs. Mills, but of a deeper shade and larger in the 

 truss. It is a good grower, and fine in form. 



A FEW OF 

 THE MOST SUCCESSFUL PELARGONIUMS OF 1851. 



Last year, I, as well as many others, felt disappointed at not seeing 

 the list of " Pelargoniums" proposed by Orion appear in the Florist, 

 as it would have filled up the blank left in the lists of Florist's flowers 

 furnished by Mr. Edwards. As no other person has entered the field, 

 I forward three dozen of the most successful varieties exhibited by 

 the leading growers of the present day, adding when and where ex- 

 hibited. 



