Plate 369. 

 BICOLOR PELAEGONITJM, EGYPTIAN QUEEN. 



All connected with horticulture are aware how great has 

 Keen the rage for Pelargoniums, with variegated foliage, during 

 the pasl two seasons. Exhibitions, especially to bring them 

 forward, haw been hold, and prizes of large amount have been 

 awarded thorn; those with leaves in the style of Mrs. Pollock 

 being the most popular, next to these, in extent, are the 

 bronze and gold, or as they are more frequently called, Bicolor 

 varieties. While, probably, in the estimation of most persons, 

 i hey are not so brilliant, yet, for the garden, we question whe- 

 ther they will not he more show)' and attractive; they do not 

 require so rich a soil, or such careful management as the Tri- 

 colors, while, as pot plants, they are very beautiful. 



We have had the opportunity, during the past season, of 

 seeing a large number of the best varieties of this class, hut 

 on paying a visit to the Messrs. Carter's Nursery, at Forest 

 Hill, on the day of the Crystal Palace autumn show, we im- 

 mediately selected E<j>ji>ii<ni Queen as the finest variety we had 

 seen. This judgment was confirmed by the decision of the 

 Floral Committee, held at South Kensington shortly afterwards, 

 for it carried the first prize against all comers; and this judg- 

 ment will he, we think, acquiesced in by all who may grow it. 



Egyptian Queen has a bright golden-yellow ground, on which 

 the darkest bronze zone that we have seen shows very finely ; 

 the leaves themselves are of verj great substance, and hence 

 are enabled to resist the influence of both sun and rain; thej 

 are round and flat ; the habit is dwarf and bushy. We were 

 informed that it had been planted out in the Nursery with all 

 the older golden and bronze-zoned Pelargoniums, and that it 

 had stood the variable seasons hotter than any of them. It 



