Plate KM. 



PELAKGONIUMS, TROUJBADOTJB AND 

 I.ADV OF THE LAKE. 



The present season has not been so remarkable for the pro- 

 duction of new varieties of this favourite flower as the previous 

 one, the task of producing flowers which shall be in advance 

 oi those previously grown being by no means easy. Still, not- 

 withstanding, some excellent flowers have been shown, and of 

 these we have selected two of the best for OUT illustration. 



We have, as usual, grown all the new flowers of the past 

 season, and from our personal observation are enabled to re- 

 commend the following as flowers of great excellence and 

 beauty. Emperor, a large and finely-shaped flower, fawnish- 

 pink, with dark spot on top petals; habit good. Firefly, bright 

 orange-scarlet. Heirloom, rich orange-rose, figured in our last 

 volume. Hermit, light rose. King of Trumps, tine flower, in 

 style of Sunny Memories. Bob Boy, a fine purple flower, with 

 very dark, almost black top petals. Sosur de GhariU, lower 

 petals rich painted orange, top petals dark maroon, a fine 

 flower; and Victor, a very richly-coloured flower, tinted with 

 orange and red. also figured in 'Floral Magazine.' Many of 

 the other flowers sent out are nearly equal in character to 

 these, but are not perhaps quite so good. 



Troubadour (Fig. 1 ) is a large and richly-coloured (lower, 

 lower petals rich rosy-crimson, the upper petals deep rich 

 crimson, with small, well-defined dark maroon spots, and the 

 centre of the flower clear while. It obtained a first-class cer- 

 tificate at the Crystal Palace, where we saw it, and admired its 

 free-flowering habit. Lady of the Lake is a verj bright, richly- 

 coloured flower, top petals nearly black, with a well-defined 

 crimson margin; lower petals deep rosy-crimson, slightly 



