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great substance and intense brilliancy of its flow- 

 ers, and when we reflect that the Royal Horti- 

 cultural Society awarded it a first-class certificate 

 of merit last season, we may justly infer that its 



abundant bloom, and other qualities of that 

 variety as well as its intense brilliant orange- 

 scarlet color. Our plants when only three or 

 four inches high— mere slips, commenced throw- 



merits were well considered. mg up their flower trusses, which would seem to 



This variety is a sprout from the well known indicate an unusually free flowering habit, which 

 and popular single flowering Zonale Pelargonium will give it great value as a market or bedding 

 "Vesuvius," and retains the dwarf free growth, I plant. H. E. C, 



