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ks” suggesti ion, and without exception a I think h Geranium pratense Sisley, yons, 
“Yor the subject paar a) pee gr and on€ | as the ellen hoes =i amines neum, ae ited by piven ki hay Ser pened ewe TF 
thought . W. E. Rendle) offered to give ten | Mr, Pearson; But be that as it may, the conclusion | your hybrids "betwen Pelargoninm ides and 
Miners de ong rowing «i At the time I fertilised 
velopm same time 1l that 
Bas in the bland.” if this be true, which Tdoubt Fo as et E d PERTE: VEE £ oe Bon Chrétien; but Glou Bosson pi from having 
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not, such persons have no right to compete with 4078 | leaved sort. Viens EDER are, I believe, known as | 2 particularly “good — was finest on an — 
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guineas towards a ppn fund, if the scheme could be | I 
dificulties at tt Bes Be they were really hybrids they ‘wore by Bo moana | frost titan i the Been of Pours tie ee 
mountable foot perhaps they are, for first and fore- | exam 3 Ea tus „France, who says that 
| E he moling epena auch as curling | Geter tate Taai a male pata on | de plat wich posed hs et a lpn 
to judges, who to-day, say, are exa : , is 
| Cac Cora at ah d tomorro EE the K a "= ty ie PSN Agi Teer E, hras wpa y ro AA the first, ord its a red, 2: me 
Seve from each K RAS in koaia ai Wales however, by what I saw of them, I think Mr. Pear- d if the seed produci the m t we 
is, Its—thongh tha peobslilities atethieg | sent md WF to's aicalty in inducing them to bear | may expect by other crosses to obtain a new 
conch ig ae Kaine with bat one, the pats ae 4 Qe ary feline S Giir me interesting ee Se ee ee 
d be OT a ais As to other details, such as gonium and the Getsalann sy ee distinct L | D dulla AAG baias tana eee eae ueg -= 
_ eno! enera, | to obtain hybrid between these two = 
rules for judging, si e of vineries, age of Vines, &c., | or that the attempted cross in this sare, ds has nium, I think it but just t hs ces hone 
I do not peor mi E ema culty, Sa must confess | not taken effect, and that the queer-looking seedlings ok an ho he ore go coe these to your 
- Sasa reegt 3 pint taggers me. z can only mA pa as seminal variations, or /usus a ak cc, I have accepted the seed, which 
pecon + soe : a 3 | #atlure pr me unknown cau sha b : cannot 
and that is, if the Council of the Royal Horticultural | I am inclined to co i e to the latter ee the credit pe | ly intended bb hoe: as that I 
peged ork be rae a ek got pa, amd | 8 should it even be admitted that the Pe ora and | believe belongs to Mr. J. Wills, now of Onslow 
i es- | Onslow S London, who e first to obtain 
7 ee iaai x ae you readers and ti . = ya =; : i e se net si ers hone eere y the two species of Pelargonium, viz., 
readil and when it is found that seedlings produced between | peltatum and zonale, P, Grieve, Ci Bury St, 
correspondents? W. Wildsmith, Heckfield, = species as zonale and sie are sterile, then | Zadmunds, T 
‘ ” een Pelargonium zonale and 
I Loa ne di 7 ran Oo Kens a t to ihe Geranium pratense or sang mi- this ever | Large Pears.—“ W, S, G.” asks for opinions on 
A A abe be accomplished) can hardly be expected to be fertile, | the relative flavour of Pears grown on walls or stan- 
unfair competition in t : Pear classes at Kensington : m : From 
A few years since I fertilised blooms of Pelargonium hie in West Gloucestershire I 
on the 11th, letter now before me written | rom ; l 
ersey, says:—‘The two principal prize-takers at |. Peltatum with the pollen of one of the strongest should give the preference to those grown on) walls— 
Eo II ape! Fn growing Zonals I could find, mp ae the ramalis the fruit, being less liable to injury from storms of wind 
| ingt were not frui e the extra. | OF rain, grows unchecked a thin unbroken skin to 
fide gentlemen’s gardeners and amateurs ; and if, A E ” 3 I think more turns y imppowed 
“A,” remarks, there is virtually no law to exclude OT. pad ib: EER Mem storing. Ifaton da theri 
; them, the sooner the Council make one the better fo ttempts, as far as I know, to induce either of them wya g in dra vå “ ot wi in it kaki s fine A tds wing 
’ a heel ay ad ike man to produce seeds, have hitherto proved abortive, as gal ; 
a atte daia y 6 ehi be di reg | bave also all attempts to f ms of other | fr a time kept i in common Apple-room, and only 
7 am fully determined never again o exhibit a dis = Pelargoniums with their pollen. In each of the placed in the drawers to be brought forward when 
ed fro se needed for use, the fruit continues hard in the peel, 
either Apples or Pears till fruiterers are 
showing in the same class, WP, qualiti paren and nea eple fine ena Pe - e that well 
cared for from the time of gathering, G. Æ, 0. 
' A New ee ro en —We send you sample | ' ney a possible alike y a mpna m habit of ; : 
of an improved b a Sees T This, ily et as etm B Uo bev enue ieee for ee Polar pega} —The 
3 Besides being able to perform the ordi- Piip A : absence of fresh vegetables (green food) in hi 
n of budding, the reverse pa are.. = cae — aps poy raat tudes during long voyages has often been eb cause of 
pare of the steel blade has a contriv: q s A 4 <a e et P rit. | Scurvy and scorbutic diseases, May I suggest a very 
ance for slitting = ho bate, which does = ` res ne oa not gware tag ia SE he simple remedy? A few hundredweight of Mastard 
is admitte at superi cetation ad take place in the and Cress seed affo he of Ai 
away with a using the e la we 
ivory handle (ger — r pianis pe mi the Polar Expedition with an unfailing crop of green 
p salad. Green Mustard, an effective sntiecorbatic, 
Se ers; i ciemna 
fennel r'on te the pet ot 
George Maw, S Benthall Hall, Dr, 
RRRA ETE, 
rogeny of a plant may be in an 
‘Pelargoniums and Geraniums.—In common, no | application of foreign pollen to the stigmas after the | 
doubt, ph many of your readers, I have been greatly : tore epee Se a age i Sagl gene | SSS 
in the letters ever and anon published | tor, shou is be admitted to be possible, it may go ‘as 
Hs ps p andthe | far to account for the remarkable seedlings produced Reports of Societies. 
= in oh brids between Pelargonium zonale ) 
al regal x p rike Geraniums of „an meado oods, | by Pelargonium Madame Vaucher at Highfield, 1 Liverpool Horticultural: Nov. 17 and 18.— 
thickets, and hedgesides. I cannot, however, see | will endeavour to describe some experiments bearing | Chrysanthemums and fruit were the 
how Mr. J. R. Pearson or Mr. E. J. Lowe can expect | upon this subject, which I have recently tried. | ductions exhibited at this show, Aar A - usual, they 
to raise a blue Geranium (p. 623, ante) Eaa such | During the early part of last summer I placed two small | were brought forward in — in a condition 
parents as G. sanguineum and P, zonale. There = lants , Of Pelargonium pry. just — such as no other provincial town ten yat Jet towers 
very little blue in the former pihai ps Bentha: into flower, in a house where no other Pelargoniums thi t 
in his Handbook, says, flowers ‘‘dark purple ae the of any sort were growing, and when they came into | jt has both in plants and cut blooms 
tint of the bloom being or pes ret g bä Eng. | flower, and the stigmas were in proper condition, I grown in the mighbourhod of Liverpocl qu site ea, 
Bot., vol. ii., p. 192), with a very slight suggestion of ul m with own pollen, place 
i i i- | or with that of other blooms upon the same Society has fi oand it it necessary to sn Aen the 
i r ; while, as regards one of the plants, ee v] the plants in their diameter, not now allowing 
ink,” and Babington | I as carefully fertilised each bloom for the'| any plant to compete over 3 feet across. „There is alsoa 
yp ” eara TE < OM miir: imagine G. pratense | second oon” ccna class equal in importan 
n nsure e iega 
a oneen oui bs et vaca progres deal i ig | due time each plant AFPA seeds, which ma Lent 
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a strain of blue colour in the fl 
to be learned from the exact aay of the pollen in | and sown separately, and the seedling p 
D ees end the asia will | by the plant whose blooms had been fertilised by its 
ee Sonne gire a siue gee own pollen only, came all what is called true, is, 
, Pelargonium, Erodium, Pegg all exactly alike, and all like the plant which pro- 
difers exceedingly in size and marking, the bulk of eee E cic aqui on salamat 
3 Ey. while, with 
tne th ae prar = ” tthe a eo other = plat, th the blooms of which had been fertilised 
the 
n instan without orn ety indas genre aed 
Smith, rere variegation | — 
Tespect, will prove hybrids, although it ee the sup- 
comp) position that the second fertilisation had a disturbing 
-~ Spaces than might supposed. Eps effect of some sort. During last summer 
= Sag og the ae part of “Taek September I | reversed Mr. Lowe’s experiment by fertilising several 
called at Chilwell, and was very much gratified | blooms of Geranium pratense with the. fom of 
_ By a sight of Mr. Pearson’s really splendid collec- | different variegated Zonal Pelargoniums, th 
ton of Zonal Pelarg iums, which are nearly all | if variegation s should be in any degree developed in the 
of his own raisi many of the best of them ti 
= mos Jet sent out. On the the same or Bg sat | 
i Eeg, ic singe Dee of E. J. 
and various other 
also kind enough ' 
