EEPOET ON- SCARLET 



Bij Thomas Moore, F.L.S., F.R.H.S., Secretary to the Floral Committee. 

 The season of 1860 having proved unfavourable to these 

 plants, it has been determined to renew the trial of them in the 

 present season, and, as far as it can be done, to prove them also 

 under pot culture. The brief particulars noted concerning them, 

 and which embody the opinion pronounced by the Committee, 

 though influenced to some extent by an exceptional season, may, 

 nevertheless, be worth recording. They are to be understood 

 as applying to the varieties as grown in the open air, and in many 

 cases are derived from single plants. 



The following is a summary of the varieties which the Com- 

 mittee adjudged to be the most desirable for cultivation : — 

 Series I. — Plain-leaved Scarlet Pklaegoniums. 



% I. Flowers scarlet: — Frogmore Improved, and Punch. 

 Defiance and Wellington Hero, in addition, were commended for 

 pot culture and for training up conservatory pillars. 



§ 2. Flowers cerise : — Beaute de Meldoise, Lady Middleton, Le 

 Titien. 



§ 3. Flotvers rose-pink .-—Christina, Ptose Queen. 



Series II.— Horse-shoe-leaved Scarlet Pelargoniums. 



§ I. Flo^vers scarlet: — Baron Hugel, Captivation, Lilliput, 

 Martin Gireau, Queen of England, Scarlet Perfection. Bishop- 

 stowe, Conway's Royalist, and New Globe were selected as good 

 secondary sorts ; while Amazon, British Flag, Compactum, and 

 Kichmond Gem were commended for pot culture or pillars. 



^2. Floicers cerise : — Frm<^ois Chardine, Mons. Martin, 

 Rubens, and Sheen Rival ; and for pot culture, Paul Labbe. 



§ 3. Flotvers salmon or flesh-colour : — Prince Louise of Hesse; 

 and for pot culture, Aurora and Blaclvheath Beauty. 



§ 4. Flou-ers rose-jnnk .-—None of the varieties in this group 

 were considered of first-rate character. 



