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are deep green with a broad dark zone, and the plant has a ikie 

 compact habit. 



Madame jSTeury has much the same coloring as Purple Prince, and 

 may be well said to be that variety with double flowers. This peculiar 

 blending of bright and dark scarlet and red gives the flowers a very 

 attractive appearance. The trusses are large, and well above the rich 

 green foliage, which is not zoned. 



NcEMiE has the same coloring as Mad Dutho Bretrand, which has 

 been so much admired and sought after on account of its peculiar shade 

 of pink suffused with violet. The light-green leaves are faintly zoned. 

 The plant is of good habit, producing its medium sized trusses in great 

 profusion. • 



Meteor Flag is very like Jewel, both in color and form of flower, 

 and habit of growth ; a little larger and more robust, and may on that 

 account be preferred where size is an inipo-rtant consideration. To our 

 taste the doubles of this style are the most beautiful, each flower being 

 formed like a half opened rose in minat^re, and bearing the most 

 minute inspection. 



M. Gelein Lowagie has certainly a most rich and glowing Ver- 

 million shade of scarlet, and ranks among the most dazzling of the 

 doubles. Its trusses are large and conspicuous, borne well above the 

 leaves, which are marked with a broad dark zone. 



Mrs. John Freed was raised by a member of our Association, who 

 Mimed it after his estimable wife. It is one of the most useful doubles 

 in cultivation forboquets and floral decorations, its clear bright scarlet 

 giving a brilliant effect, while its usually medium sized trusses- admit 

 of its being readily introduced wherever the color is wanted.. Each 

 pip is mounted upon a footstalk o-f sufficient length to admit of i%» being 

 taken aut of the truss and used in the formation of button-hole b©quets, 

 v/here the flowers apjjear with good effect, and endure for a long time. 

 Charles Glym will perhaps hardly rank among the doubles of 

 recent introduction, but it is one of such peculiar and exceeding 

 brilliancy and effectiveness that it deserves to be kept in remembrance. 

 There is just a dash of orange shade' through the scarlet, enough to give 

 such vivacity to the coloring as to make it one of the most showy and 

 attractive of all the geraniums. The trusses are of good size, borne up 

 on stout stalks, and produced in great profusion. It is one of our 

 favorites. 



