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more delicate colors are not so well adapted for massing 
or planting on a large scale as the bright colors of the 
most vigorous growing sorts, nor near as effective. The 
more delicate colored varieties make excellent pot plants 
where parties wish to grow them for window or house 
decoration, and when thus grown are at all times admir- 
able objects about a home, whether on the porch in Sum- 
mer or in the pit in Winter. 
VARIETIES OF PELARGONIUMS. 
LADY WASHINGTON. 
The Fancy or Show Pelargoniums are strictly for the 
greenhouse or pit, and unsuitable for the garden or flower 
border. A new hybrid was raised in 1794 and called 
Lady Washington, and on this account until the present 
day this entire class is known as ‘‘ Lady Washington 
Geraniums.’’? Some divisions of this class have also the 
distinctive appellations of Fancy, Large Flowered, 
Spotted, and French Pelargoniums. As specimen plants 
for the conservatory they have no equal during their 
blooming period; the beautiful markings of the blooms 
vie with many a costly Orchid in richness of color and 
shading. They usually bloom in the Spring months and 
last for a period of from four to six weeks in great per- 
fection ; after this their beauty has departed until another 
season, as they do not bloom but once in the year, and 
on this account are not popular in the South, for we are 
in most respects like the scores of good housewives all 
through the country, that send their orders in the Spring 
to the florists with the strict injunction to send something 
‘‘that will blossom always,’’ and since Lady Washington 
is not of that sort, and her beauty so transitory, she 
claims no great admiration from either the amateur or 
_professional florist of the South. 
