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Yorkshire Hero is a fine sort. Carter's Main Crop, of the Eed Regent class, will 

 prove a most useful variety, being excellent in quality, like the Regent itself. 

 To these may be added, Giant King, and Veitch's Improved Ashleaf. B. 



DOUBLE-FLOWERED ZONAL PELARGONIUMS. 



^fEN years ago who would have dared to have thought of a double-flowered 

 Zonal Pelargonium ? yet they are amongst us, and they even threaten to 

 elbow out the single varieties. The flowers of many of them are very 

 double, and their colours bright and glowing, besides which their 

 blossoms remain so long in perfection, if damp is kept from them, that they 

 are exceedingly valuable as cut flowers. In fact I know nothing to equal them 

 for button-holes, ladies head-dresses, &c, for they will last through a very hot 

 day without falling to pieces or flagging. The plants Tequire very similar treat- 

 ment to the ordinary Zonals. Most of the varieties are strong growers, and a 

 two or three-year old stool is therefore far preferable to a young vigorous plant ; 

 for in these the growth is moderated, and the quantity of blooms increased. The 

 plants should be exposed to the open atmosphere at all favourable opportunities. 

 Madame Lemoine is a decided acquisition, the colour being quite new and dis- 

 tinct from that of all others in this section ; it is very rarely, when this occurs, that 

 all other good qualities follow in the same plant, but such is the case with this 

 variety, which is a far better thing than is generally supposed. The flowers are 

 very double, and the colour a beautiful delicate bright rose ; the plant is free, but 

 very dwarf, and altogether it is certainly the grandest Pelargonium that has 

 been introduced for a long time. Emile Lemoine, which is also a new variety, is 

 an advance on older kinds. In its habit, and in the style of expanding its bloom, 

 it approaches nearer to the single varieties. It bears fine trusses and pips, the 

 colour being a light orange scarlet. Triomphe de Lorraine is the next nearest 

 approach to the singles in dwarfness ; it bears very double imbricated flowers, of 

 a bright cherry carmine colour, occasionally striped with white, and is a very free, 

 noble, and attractive kind. Capitaine l'Hermite is a very bright orange scarlet, 

 the truss large, and the pips double ; a strong grower, but dwarf. Triomphe de 

 Thivmesnil is very similar to the foregoing, but with a slight shade of carmine in 

 the flowers, Triumph is the brightest scarlet of any of the doubles, but is not 

 so decidedly double as those already named ; it is a very strong grower, and rather 

 long in the foot-stalks. Surpasse Gloire de Nancy is very similar to the old 

 Gloire de Nancy, a bright rosy carmine scarlet, of very fine form, and perfectly 

 double ; the flowers are so freely produced that it is a very showy variety, and 

 one of the best. Andrew Henderson is a scarlet. Whether from the heat or the 

 dryness of the past season. I cannot say, but it has with me fallen very short of 

 the description given some time ago with the plate of it in the Florist. 

 Madame Rose-Charmeux, or Henderson's Double Tom Thumb, and Cottington or 

 Paul's Double Tom Thumb, are in habit perfectly distinct from any of the fore- 



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