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FOSTER’S GIPSY BRIDE PELARGONIUM. 
N our last month’s Number we inserted the particulars of the Seed- 
ling Pelargonium Exhibition held at Upton Park, near Slough. 
To the Pelargonium we now figure the first prize was awarded. It 
was shown by Mr. Black, gardener to Edward Foster, Esq., of Clewer 
Manor House, near Windsor. It had previously been exhibited at the 
Royal Botanic Gardens show, when a first class certificate was awarded 
for it. 
The flower is of first-rate form, a good trusser, free bloomer, and 
the flowers are properly elevated above the foliage. It would have 
added to its excellence had the flower been larger. 
Pelargoniums always succeed best when grown in a house apart 
from other plants, and placed upon a stage as near to the glass as 
circumstances will admit, which is a most essential point in their 
culture. Where a greenhouse is of necessity appropriated to other 
classes of plants, then it is best to have pit-frames to grow the Pelar- 
goniums in till blooming season; and when the flower-stems have 
pushed about half their length, to introduce the plants into the green- 
house for blooming. When they are in the greenhouse, and the petals 
are bursting the calyx, the temperature must be kept high, and be 
kept so till the blooming is over. If it is desired to have large and 
bold flowers this attention is very necessary, and, though at a hot season 
of the year, the house should be kept closed, in a great degree, using a 
canvass shade when mid-day sun is intense. This mode of treatment 
with blooming plants is the principal reason of the flowers exhibited 
by the London growers being generally so superior in size to any we 
ever saw in the country. 
Having recently given some observations on the culture of this 
charming tribe of plants, as well as lengthened articles being in pre- 
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