Plate 523. 

 PELARGONIUM— PINK QUEEN. 



At the Autumn Show of the Metropolitan Floral Society, 

 held at the Crystal Palace last September, amongst other mis- 

 cellaneous objects of interest was a Pelargonium exhibited by 

 Messrs. Downie, Laird, and Laing, to which a first-class certifi- 

 cate was awarded by the judges, and which, under the name of 

 P'mlc Queen, we have now the pleasure of figuring. 



The pink-flowered varieties of the Pelargonium have always 

 been favourites, and many new varieties have from time to time 

 been brought out, some of lighter and others of deeper shades of 

 colour ; but for bedding purposes none have exceeded the fine 

 old variety raised by Mr. Kinghorn, Christine. Although 

 like Beaute de Surennes, Helen Lindsay, and many others, 

 very beautiful as pot plants, the chief objection to Christine 

 is that it seeds so freely that the seed-pods become a disfigure- 

 ment in the bed. 



Pinh Queen, it will be perceived, has foliage of an intense 

 deep green, with a broad black zone in the centre of each leaf, 

 while the flower is of a very deep cannine jjink — much deeper 

 than in any of the varieties wliich we have seen. It is also a 

 very free-flowering variety, and we have but little doiibt that it 

 will be also very useful as a bedder. It will be, with a number 

 of fine new pelargoniums, distributed this spring by Messrs. 

 Downie, Laird, and Laing, to whom we are indebted for the 

 opportunity of figuring it. 



