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THE FLORIST. 



FANCY PELARGONIUMS. 



The following list of Pelargoniums must be accepted as a continuation 

 of the returns made by our best qualified growers. 



The fancy Pelargonium, wdth all its popularity, yet fails to embrace 

 the number of cultivators which the larger flowered sorts can boast. So 

 far as my observation extends, their real deficiency is in the want of 

 attractiveness — in other words the want of showiness ; for to no variety 

 does that brilliancy of colour belong which so distinguishes the old sorts. 



All must admit that under ordinary treatment the fancy Pelargonium 

 may claim that profuseness in point of flowering which scarcely belongs 

 to any other subject in general cultivation ; when the time shall have 

 arrived that to this qualification can be added brilliancy and depth of 

 colour, then, and not till then, will the fancy Pelargonium become a 

 flower for the million, in common with its compeer, so long the universal 

 favourite. 



LISTS OF TWELVE FANCY PELARGONIUMS, 

 By Messrs. Dobson & Son, Mr. Frost, Mr. Robinson, Mr. 



AND Mr. Turner. 



Rosier, 



Wace Cottage, HoUoway. 



John Edavards. 



