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Bronze - and - gold - leaved : The Czar, Her Majesty, Zulu, Marshal 

 MacMahon, Black Douglas, Golden Harry Hieover, Prince Arthur, Bronze 

 Queen, Bronze Beauty. 



Golden Tricolors : Miss Pollock, Master Harry Cox (salmon flowers), 

 Masterpiece (scarlet flowers), Sophia Dumaresque, Lady Cullurn, Peter 

 Grieve, Mrs. Turner, Prince of Wales, &c. 



Silver Tricolors: Charming Bride, Dolly Varden, Lass of Lowrie, Mrs. 

 John Glutton, Mrs. Laing, Princess Beatrice, &c. 



One of the most popular single-flowered salmon-pink varieties is Lady 

 Chesterfield strong, sturdy habit, and fine in blossom. Surprise, another 

 salmon-pink short stocky grower. A newer variety is Mrs. Kobert Cannell, 

 even better than Lady Chesterfield in colour, habit, and size of truss. 

 Salmon Paul Crampel is another new variety. 



Doubles: F. V. Raspail, scarlet, splendid for cut; Hermione (nearly 

 always written and pronounced "Hermoine"), white; King of Denmark, 

 rosy salmon; White Abbey, white; Henry Jacoby, deep crimson; Gustav 

 Emich, scarlet; La Cygne, white. 



IVY-LEAVED PELARGONIUMS. These have arisen from P. peltatum or 

 P. hedercefolium, a South African species with five-angled or lobed ivy-like 

 shining-green leathery leaves and white or red flowers. Numerous varie- 

 ties single and double have been raised, but, unlike the bushy Zonals, 

 they are all straggling and long-stemmed in habit. This makes them 

 valuable for drooping over window boxes, for pegging down as carpet plants 

 in beds and borders, or for baskets hanging from arches, porticoes, &c. 

 They are raised from cuttings in the same way as the Zonals, but require 

 perhaps a little more heat and more grit in the soil. The plants also are 

 much more subject to attacks of greenfly, which cripple the leaves and 

 spoil the plants. They must therefore be syringed with nicotine, soft- 

 soap, and quassia emulsions, or the houses must be fumigated or vaporized 

 from time to time. A fungoid disease, probably Botrytis cinerea, attacks 

 the plants sometimes and destroys the foliage and blossom. The only 

 remedy is to burn the affected plants, or to prevent the spread of the 

 disease by syringing with liver of sulphur (1 oz. to 3 or 4 gal. of water). 

 Of late years hybrids have been raised between the Ivy-leaved and the 

 Zonal sections, and some of them will probably become market favourites. 



The following varieties are grown largely: Souvenir de Charles Turner, 

 deep rose, double; Madame Crousse, pink, double, with a brilliant scarlet 

 form; Prince of Wales, cerise; Achievement, soft salmon pink; Galilee, 

 beautiful clear rose; H. Cannell, rosy scarlet; Madame Thibaut, deep pink; 

 Giacomelli, pale lilac; Mrs. Hawley, cerise; Queen of Balkong, deep scarlet; 

 Willie, bright scarlet. 



SHOW, DECORATIVE, AND FANCY PELARGONIUMS. The " Show " and 

 "Decorative" Pelargoniums have been evolved from P. cucullalum and 

 P. grandifiorum, and the " Fancy " kinds have probably had a similar 

 origin. The garden varieties of the Show and Decorative section have 

 large circular flowers, the two upper petals of which are blotched with 



