Plate 377. 



DOUBLE ZONAL PELARGONIUM, MADAME 



LEMOINE. 



Again have our neighbours across the Channel led the waj 

 in the introduction of a new race of plants for the decoration 

 of our flower-gardens and greenhouses; and as to them we owe 

 the double Zinnia and Aster, the fancy Tansy, the numerous 

 race of Phloxes, and other garden novelties, — so now in the 

 double Pelargonium they have again manifested the skill and 

 per everance which have led to so many successful results lie- 

 fore. 



We have recorded so many strange results in the familj ol 

 Pelargoniums in our pages already, that the appearance of a 

 double-flowering variety is not so much a matter of astonish- 

 ment. We have seen great changes produced in the colouring 

 of the leaf, in the form, size, and colour of the flower; and 

 now we have the increase in the number of petals sufficient to 

 form a double flower. This result has been obtained by Monsieur 

 Lemoine, of Nancy, to whom we owe Gloire <l< Nancy, Triomphe 

 ilc Lorraine, and others we have heard of, but have not seen, — ■ 

 one especially, called Andrew Henderson, producing trusses 

 five and a half" inches iu diameter ; they have as yet had the 

 fault of being too rampant in their growth; but as we have 

 obtained dwarf varieties in the other sections, so we may rea- 

 sonably infer that the same result will be ultimately obtained 

 in this class; in fact, from the description given to us of the 

 variety now figured, a step in that direction has already been 

 made. Messrs. Henderson, of Wellington Road Nursery, St. 

 John's Wood, by whom this and other varieties have been in- 

 troduced into England, say, "On looking at the plants we per- 

 ceive that, like the Gloire de Nancy, it is of the Pelargonium 



