MISSION OF COLLECTOR TO BKAZIL. 660 



Earl of Shaftesbury, crimson ; Niobe, flesh-colour; Euphrosyne, 

 deep salmony flesh-colour; Paris, pale peach-blossom. 



Dahlias : — from Messrs. Do\raiE & Co. : Alpha, dull copper- 

 colour striped with maroon crimson, — From Mr. Tuknee : 

 Captain Harvey, dark amaranth; Cyg^net, a pleasing flesh 

 colour, whiter at the centre ; Tina, blush white Avith light purple 

 tips ; John Spencer, dark crimson maroon. — From Mr. Keynes : 

 Goldfinder, a showy yellow slightly red-tipped, rather coarse; 

 Fanny Purchase, yellow heavily tipped and shaded with rosy red ; 

 Anna.Keynes, a gay bright yellow {ipped with orange red; 

 Oscar (Addis), light red; Prince Arthur, white barely tipped 

 and shaded with deep purple ; Tiffany, very 'pale primrose : 

 Hoyal Purple, deep purple ; Mrs. Crisp, blush and maroon 

 shaded and tipped. 



Variegated Pelargoniums : — from Messrs. E. G. Henderson 

 & Son : The Countess, silver-edged with rosy-pink zone, and neat 

 scarlet flowers ; Little Beauty, dwarf, silver-edged and very 

 slightly red-zoned, with scarlet flowers ; Edith, silver-edged with 

 slight pink zone ; Aureum bicolor, flat-leaved with yellow edge 



Pelargonium (zonale) Portobello: — from Mr. Piichakdsox, 

 gardener to Lady Gerard, Portobello House, East Sheen. This 

 variety was of compact habit with bold trusses thrown well above 

 the foHage; the latter had a broad dark green edge or zone, with 

 the centre somewhat paler so as to appear indistinctly horseshoe- 

 marked. The flowers were light orange-scariet. The plant 

 was sent to the garden for comparison with the sorts growing 



XCI.— MISSION OF COLLECTOR TO BRAZIL. 

 Thk following letter has been received frotn Mr. Weir :— 



Sir,— Dnring tfie past month I have been engaged in looking roand the 

 river Sao Pedro, at a place about fourteen miles west of Beleni, where I 



im awIrerS ^Itivatiol "" Of these^ howfver, I'fear there is but little chance 

 jf getting seeds, and althoogh it is late in the season, I think of sending _a 

 ^iJs case of them by nest mail. They will only be about twenty-four ^days m 



