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dwarf and compact and almost as free of flower as the single varieties 

 can easily be produced. 



Heartily commending what is here written to the readers of the 

 1 Gardener,' I shall conclude with a list of twelve good show Zonals, 

 the same number of Nosegays, and six double-flowering Pelargoniums, 

 all of wdiich will well repay good cultivation. 



Purity. 



Clipper. 



Rosabella. 



Excellent. 



Sambo. 



William Underwood. 



Beaute des Suresnes. 



Lord Derby. 



Highgate Rival. 



Madame Madeline. 



Dr Lindley. 



Madame Werle. 



NOSEGAYS. 

 Grand Duke. 

 Violet Hill Nosegay. 

 Chilwell Beauty. 

 Gathorne Hardy. 

 Celestial. 

 International. 

 Eclat. 

 Emmeline. 

 Dr Hogg. 



Triomphe de Stella. 

 Pink Globe. 

 Mrs Laing. 



Wilhelm Pfitzer. 

 Gloire de Nancy. 



DOUBLE-FLOWERING. 



Andrew Henderson. 

 Victor Lemoine. 



Madame Lemoine. 

 Marie Lemoine. 



Exhibitor. 



PETUNIAS AS BEDDING PLANTS. 



The drought has served most unmistakably to bring out the value of 

 Petunias as bedding plants. Eepeatedly have I seen them furnishing 

 masses of effective colours without that intensity of hue so peculiar 

 to Scarlet Pelargoniums. A little seed raised in March on a gentle 

 heat will give an abundance of plants, and if the strain be good, some 

 pretty things are sure to result. In my own case I use two or three 

 very nice striped flowers obtained from what is known as Bull's Strain 

 of Petunia. I find that, in contrast to other strains of seed I have 

 attempted to grow, these have a peculiarly wiry and not very gross 

 habit, and are remarkably free blooming, and have flowers quite rounded 

 inform, of thick substance, capable of withstanding both heat and sun. 

 These selected flowers I propagate from cuttings in February, and by 

 the end of May I have an abundance of nice stuff. Either growing in 

 pots, or if, as sometimes happens, I have not space enough to house 

 them, I place a number of rooted cuttings in boxes, and when planted 

 out they lay hold of the soil, and are soon pictures of bloom. 



Those requiring a larger quantity of plants than I do for my mod- 

 est little parterre, would need to begin propagating earlier in the sea- 



