Plate 397. 



FANCY PELARGONIUMS, FANNY GAIR AND 



MAEMION. 



Few seasons of late years have been so prolific in the pro- 

 duction of new and valuable varieties of the Fancj Pelargonium 

 as the present one, although they have been exhibited by but 



one raiser, Mr. Charles Turner, of Slough ; from the numerous 

 varieties of merit which have been brought forward we have 

 selected two of the most striking for our illustration. 



Owing, perhaps, to their being somewhat more difficult to 

 manage than the ordinary show Pelargonium, the fancy 

 varieties are not nearly so much grown, and yet for their 

 profusion of bloom and distinctness of colouring they deserve 

 the little extra care that is needed; smaller in size, more 

 compact and neat in growth, they make pretty stage plants, 

 and, under careful management, fine exhibition plants are 

 readily made of them, indeed it is questionable whether thej 

 are not quite as much appreciated at our various floral exhibi- 

 tions as their larger, and, perhaps, more showy congeners ; 

 probably no finer plants have ever been exhibited than those 

 staged by the Messrs. Frazer, of Lea Bridge Road, at the Royal 

 Botanic Society's Exhibition in June last. 



Fanny Gair (Fig. 1) is a flower of very rich and bright co- 

 louring, approaching more nearly to the French variety, " Roi 

 des fantaisies" than any other with which we are acquainted, 

 but excelling that flower in the regularity of its outline and 

 distinctness of its colouring; the lower petals are white, with a 

 broad pencilled band of light crimson, very distinct and prettj ; 

 the upper petals are of a bright vivid crimson, with a very 

 distinct narrow margin of white round them. Princess Teck 

 (Fig. 2) is a darker flower, the upper petals being bright 

 crimson, and the lower of a somewhat lighter shade, heavily 



