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JOUEKAL OP HORTICtTLTU^E AND COTTAGE GAEDKNER. 



I Jan« 30,:iMI, 



I haTe named, they are at this moment covered with flower ; 

 the case is quite diiTerent with the two other varieties 

 named, lor thoy have both done bearing, and not a bloom is 

 to be seen on them. — J. Hill, The Gardens, FoUs, Wm-e, Herts. 



Noticing several communications respecting the earliest 

 varieties cf what are called new kinds — viz.. Dictson's First 

 and Best. Sutton's Kingleader, Carter's First Early, Car- 

 penter's Express, Essex Kival, Dillistone's Early, and Sang- 

 ster's No. 1, a trial was undertaken on purpose to prove 

 which is the earliest. Two rows of each were sown on the 

 7th of February on a south border, and treated exactly the 

 same. 



^ Dickson's was the first to flower and to be gathered from; 

 all the pods, too, were double. It is a kind quite distinct 

 from any of the others. Next came Sutton's Ringleader, 

 DiUistone's Early, and Carter's First Early. These three I 

 consider the same variety, mostly single-podded, and all of 

 the same height. 



Next came Carpenter's Bxpress and Sangster's No. 1. 

 These two are decidedly the same kind. 



The latest of all was Essex Kival, 4 feet. 



The only kinds I intend to grow for early crops are Dick- 

 son's First and Best Early and Sangster's No. 1. — E. Welch, 

 Palace Garden, Arviagh, Ireland. 



WINTERING PLANTS IN A EOOM. 



It may, perhaps, interest some of your readers who, like 

 myself, have a small garden, but no greenhouse, pit, frame, or 

 other convenience fur wintering plants, to hear that I have 

 now in my garden the following, all wintered in a room — viz., 

 33 scarlet Geraniums, 8 white Geraniums, 3 Fancy Geraniums, 

 45 yellow Calceolarias, 3 Lobelias, 1 Verbena, and some old 

 plants of Calceolarias, scarlet Geraniums, and scented Ver- 

 benas. Excepting the old plants, the whole are cuttings 

 made by myself as nearly as I could according to the direc- 

 tions given from time to time in your Journal. During the 

 winter they were on shelves across one window only. This 

 window is in a room which never once had a fire in it, and 

 which faces the east; it is also shaded from the south by 

 a prrjecting part of an adjoining house. I was able to 

 attend to them myself nearly the whole of the time. 



In addition to what I saved there were a number more 

 which died, mostly Verbenas and Lobelias, these, as I sup- 

 pose, not requiring the same treatment as the others ; but 

 Ixom the very small means at my command I was only able 

 to give one sort of treatment to all. The dry air of a room 

 was not very favourable for raising cuttings at all. Next 

 winter 1 hope to try again, and by making cuttings only of 

 those sorts which did best, to save a larger jiroportion of 

 plants.— V. G. C. 



EEPORT ON THE BEDDING PELARGONIUMS 

 GROWN AT CHISWICK, 1861. 



Bt 7noHA9 Mooni, F.L.S., Seckktart to tbk Kloual Committkh. 



SERIES II.-ZONATE V.^RIETIES. 



(Continued from paye 451.) 



3. FLOWEBS SALMON OB FLESH-COLOUB. 



Auricvla * • (Bull).— Moderately vigorous ; leaves dark 

 zoned ; flowers shaded salmon, rather effective. It also 

 proved free and good, deserving of two marks, as grown 

 under glass. 



Aurora • •• (Hnl)y).— Dwarf habit; leaves distinctly dark 

 zoned ; flowers free flesh colour. 



Chione (Kollisson). — Moderately vigorous habit; leaves 

 with dark zojie ; flowers flesh colour with (Icfqifr centre. 



£Mainc!(Hiilly). — Moderately vigoroushabit; leaves darkly 

 zoned ; flowers of a deep salmony flesh colour with a white 

 eye. 



Enchantress (Bull). — Vigorous habit; leaves broad, with a 

 dork zone; flowers deep flesh colour. Indifl'erent under 

 glaf^B. 



Ernest (Bull). — Mode'" '«ly vigorous habit; leaves with 

 dark vandyked zone; ""../fferB showy, of good foim, deep 

 flesh colour. 



Fanty * * (Bull). — Moderately vigorous ; leaves with dark 

 zone ; flowers flesh coloured with deeper salmon eye, freely 

 produced and showy. 



Madame Chardine (Low cfe Co.). — Vigorous habit ; leavec 

 with dark zone ; flowers flesh colour with deeper centre. 



Madame Lemoine (Bull). — Moderately vigorous ; leaves 

 with an indistinct zone ; flowers pale salmon pink. 



Prince of Hesse * * (Ingram). — Moderately vigorous habit ; 

 leaves with dark zone; flowers salmon pink with deeper 

 centre. 



Prince of Wales (E. G. Henderson & Son). — Moderately 

 vigorous habit; leaves dark zoned; flowers salmon colour, 

 paler at the edge. 



Princess Mary * * * (The Society). — ^Vigorous habit ; leaves 

 broad and flat with a very broad dark zone ; flowers in the 

 way of those of Prince of Hesse, shaded salmon pink, of 

 fine form, and produced in good trusses. A seedling raised 

 at Chiswick. 



Rosamond * * (Bull). — Moderately vigorous habit ; leaves 

 with broad dark zone ; flowers free, the trusses compact, the 

 blossoms deep salmon pink, of fine shape. 



St. Fiacre * * * (Salter). — Rather dwarf habit ; leaves with 

 a deep dull zone ; flowers abundant, salmon pink, deeper in 

 the centre. Also free, showy, and of the first quality as a 

 pot plant. 



Souvenir du 8 Juin * * (Van Houtte).- — Rather dwarf in 

 habit ; leaves marked with a dull zone ; flowers freely pro- 

 duced, flat, and of good form, salmon pink, deeper towards 

 the centre, which ibrms a small pale eye. This was only 

 grown as a pot plant, and received two marks for its quality 

 under glass. 



4. FLOWERS WHITE. 



Eugene Dvf oy (Carter & Co.). — Vigorous habit; leaves 

 with broad dull zone; flowers blush white. Of no particular 

 merit under glass. 



Flag of Trw.e (WOls). — ^Vigorous habit ; dark-zoned leaves; 

 flowers blush ivhite. 



Lady Blanche (Saltei'). — Moderately vigorous habit; leaves 

 with a dark vandyked zone; flowers blush white. 



Madame Cornelissen (Salter). — Dwarf habit ; leaves dark 

 zoned ; flowers white, with a broad salmon eye. 



Madame Voucher*** (Low & Co.).- — Vigorous habit; 

 leaves with dark zone ; flowers in good trusses, white, chang- 

 ing to blush. The most useful of the whites grown in the 

 collection. 



Purity (BuU). — Vigorous habit ; dark-zoned leaves ; blush 

 white flowers. It proved a shy bloomer under glass. 



Snowball (Carter & Co.). — Dwarfish vigorous habit ; leaves 

 dark zoned ; flowers white, in the way of Mrs. Vaucher, but 

 the plants -ivere not in character. It bloomed better in pots 

 but the flowers were set too close down to the leaves. 



The Swan (Bull). — Vigorous habit; leaves witli dark van- 

 dyked zone ; flowers white, in large trusses, sometimes 

 showy. Under glass it boi-e long-stalked trusses, and was 

 in some states a rather dosirable variety. 



White Perfection*** (J. F. Chafer).— Vigorous habit; 

 leaves marked with a broad zone of dull brown ; flowers 

 blusli white. Under glass this proved of the first quality, 

 as indicated by the above murks ; the flowers being pure 

 white, of good shape, and thrown well up. 



5. FLOWERS WHITE OB PALB-OOLOUKED WITH SALMON EYE. 



Amelina Grisau * * * (Salter). — Moderately vigorous habit; 

 leaves marked with a broad dark zone ; flowers large, of fine 

 shape, white, with a bright salmon eye. Altogether a very 

 fine sort, with the colours bright and well-defined. 



Pcauly * * * (E. G. Henderson & Son).— Moderately vigo- 

 rous habit; leaves marked with a dark zone ; flowers of very 

 fini' shape, wliito, with a salmon-coloured eye, iorming an 

 edging to the base of the petals. One of the best of the 

 race. 



Jkl Demonio (Carter & Co.; Williams). — Vigorous habit; 

 leaves with broad brown zone ; ilowors with salmon-coloured 

 centre. It proved to bo shy both out of dooi's and under 

 glass. 



Display (Williams). — Moderately vigorous habit; leaves 

 with broad dark zono : flowers white, with salmon eye. 



Erin-go- Jiragh (Bull). ^Moderately vigorous habit ; leaves 

 marked with a broad dark zone ; flowers white, with salmon 

 pye. 



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