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ZONALE OR HORSE SHOE PELARGONIUMS. 
This class is also called Fish Geraniums, and comprises 
all that is beautiful in this entire class of plants. They 
are single and double, and run the entire gamut of 
color from the purest white to the richest velvety crim- 
son. This species has a splendid habit of being dwarf 
and compact, with good form and substance. It has 
large reniform, indistinctly zoned leaves, soft to the 
touch, and exhaling when rubbed an aromatic odor. 
Some of the varieties of this class have a dark zone on 
the surface of the leaf, hence the term horseshoe. There 
are such an innumerable number of varieties in this class 
that we will not mention one in preference to another, 
as they all possess Cecided charms. 
SILVER LEAVED AND TRICOLORS. 
The flowers in this class are all single and of a prevail- 
ing pink, light scarlet or rose color, the beauty of the 
foliage being produced at the expense of the flower. 
They retain the same characteristics as the Horse Shoe 
or Zonale class, only the markings are more vivid, as in 
Mountain of Snow, where the leaves are beautifully mar- 
gined with white, Marshal McMahon, with a yellow 
ground and a bronze zone, and Happy Thought, with a 
creamy yellow leaf and broad margin of deep green. 
The Tricolors are still more highly marked, as in Mrs. 
Pollock, Lady Cullum and Sophia Dumaresque; the 
foliage of these are all most attractive, but are of weak 
growth and do not stand the sun of our Summers in the 
South, and unless as objects of interest for the green- 
house, window garden or pit, are not much raised with 
us here. 
