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nary bedding Pelargoniums, there is a great run upon Excellent, rich 

 scarlet ; Stella, nosegay ; Crystal Palace, scarlet, a dwarf- growing 

 variety ; Christine, pink ; Madame Vaucher, white ; Crystal Palace 

 Gem, one of the Cloth-of-Gold section, and a most useful bedder, &c. 



Still another house, and here was a wonderful collection of double 

 Pelargoniums, some 3000 in number, including very fine specimens 

 of each of the double varieties. Of these, Madame Lemoine was very 

 fine, having superb rose-coloured flowers fully 2 inches across ; Tom 

 Thumb, fiery red, flowers rather loose, and apt to burn in the summer; 

 and Wilhelm Pfitzer, orange-scarlet, habit dwarf and close, a fine new 

 variety. Messrs Carter & Co. are now cultivating 24 assumed varieties 

 of double Pelargoniums. In this same house were variegated zonale, 

 silver variegated, and gold and bronze zonale Pelargoniums in great 

 abundance, fine young stufi*, bushy and compact in growth. Some 

 specimen ivy-leaved Pelargoniums, trained on wire shapes, were espe- 

 cially noticeable for their fine cultivation, especially examples of the 

 two new kindsj Duke of Edinburgh and I'Elegante. In this house 

 also was a splendid plant of Clianthus Dampieri, finely bloomed. 



In other houses were Azaleas, show and fancy Pelargoniums, tender 

 Eerns, some plants of the new American Cherry Tomato, produced 

 in bunches like Currants, the berries being nearly transparent, stove 

 and greenhouse plants, succulents, &c., in great abundance. 



Perhaps most striking of all was a long pit of considerable breadth, 

 filled with a great number of specimen plants of variegated zonal 

 Pelargoniums in the best possible condition, the leaves finely coloured 

 and the plants in the finest health. Particularly noticeable for 

 the rich beauty of the leaves were Prince of "Wales, Mrs Tom Hood, 

 Sultana Yalide, and Sir Robert ISJ'apier. In the silver-edged section, 

 Mabel Morris was very fine, having a striking carmine zone slightly 

 shaded with dark ; and in the gold and bronze section, Southern 

 Belle, a fine variety, with a broad dark zone in a golden-leaf ground, 

 was most engaging in appearance. Every good and striking variety 

 appeared to be here ; probably such a collection of plants could not be 

 seen in any other nursery round London. 



Out of doors the pits of bedding stuff" were something remarkable, 

 as they contained the plants ready for planting out at once, and which 

 had been hardening off for some days past. There were thirty-four of 

 these pits, each 33 feet long by 6 feet wide, completely filled with plants 

 in 60-pots, each square foot containing twelve plants. A striking mass 

 of yellow colouring was presented by a large batch of a variety of 

 Tagetes patula, a capital selection from the double dwarf orange. 

 Erench Marigold, a plant used largely at the Crystal Palace for 

 bedding purposes. During the summer months these shallow pits 



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