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JOURNAL OP HORTXCtrLTtJBK AKD COTTAGE GAKDElfEE. 



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Eug^ie Mezard * * * (Salter, E. G. Henderson & Son, 

 Turner). — Moderately vigorous habit; leaves with a broad 

 dark zone ; flowers white at the edge, with salmon centre, 

 showy, well-formed, and produced in good handsome trusses. 

 This was received also under the name of Madame Euders- 

 dorff. It was of the fii-st degree of merit as a pot plant. 



Eva (Bull). — Vigorous habit ; leaves with broad dark zone ; 

 flowers white, with pink eye. 



Fascinaiioti (Williams). — Moderately vigorous ; leaves 

 with a dull zone ; flowers salmon, paler at the edges. 



Francois Deshois**'* (E. G. Henderson & Son). — Mode- 

 rately vigorous habit ; leaves with a dark submarginal zone ; 

 flowers white, with a bold, deep, salmon eye, freely produced. 

 A good pot plant, but not equal to Amelina Grisau. 



Henri de Beaudot (Low & Co.). — -Vigorous habit ; leaves 

 dark zoned ; flowers white, with deep salmon centre. 



Leonie Nivelet * * * (Van Houtte). — Moderately vigorous ; 

 leaves broad, marked with a dark zone ; flowers of good 

 form, white, with salmon eye, in fine trusses. It proved 

 also to be a first-rate pot plant, with fine elevated trusses 

 of salmon-flesh flowers, paler and whitish towards the edges. 



Loveliness (Wills). — Moderately vigorous ; leaves dark 

 zoned ; flowers salmon, with pale edges. 



Marie Lahle*-* (Van Houtte). — Moderately vigorous; 

 leaves with a dark centre or zone; flowers of flne shape, 

 white, with a pink eye formed by markings at the edge of 

 the petals near their base ; it resembled Beauty. 



Mrs. Moore (Wills). — -Vigorous habit; leaves dark zoned; 

 flowers white with salmon eye. 



Ifelly (Bull). — Vigorous habit; leaves with very broad 

 dark zone ; flowers white, with salmon eye. It proved a 

 good free-blooming pot plant, in the way of Eugenie Mezard, 

 but too much resembling it to be also required. 



Neptune (Bull). — -Vigorous habit; leaves marked with a 

 dull zone ; flowers white, with salmon eye. 



Pauline (Bull). — Vigorous habit ; leaves marked with a 

 broad black zone ; flowers white, with salmon eye. Tolerably 

 effective under glass. 



Pretty Polly (Wills). — Moderately vigorous ; leaves with 

 a dark centre or zone ; flowers white, with pink centre. 



6. FLOTSTERS KOSE PINK. 



jljZaia (Salter). — Vigorous habit; leaves with broad dull 

 zone ; flowers of good shape, rose-pink, white at the base. 



Amy * * (Eollisson.) — Vigorous habit ; leaves with a dark 

 vandyked zone ; flowers in fine trusses, large, pale rose pink, 

 with a white base. 



Chancellor (Bull). — Moderately vigorous habit; leaves 

 with an indistinct green zone; flowers rose pink, with a 

 white base. 



Charmer (Bull). — A good rose pink, paler than Madame 

 Gassier. It was only grown as a pot plant. 



Eve * * * (Bull). — Of rather vigorous habit ; leaves marked 

 ■with a broad dull zone near the centre ; flowers large, in 

 large trusses, of fine shape, light rosy pink with white base. 

 A very fine pale variety in the open borders, and of nearly 

 equal merit as grown in pots. 



Flora * * * (Van Houtte). — Moderately vigorous habit ; 

 leaves with an indistinct green zone ; flowers large, pale 

 rosy pink or peach, white at the base, and of fine shape. A 

 fine, large, pale peach-ooloured sort, grown only under glass, 

 under which conditions it was of first-class quality. 



Selen Lindsay * * * (Carter & Co.). — Of rather vigorous 

 habit; leaves with a broad indistinct zone near the centre; 

 flowers abundant, in fair-sized trusses, deep bright rose pink. 

 A very lively and bright-coloured variety. 



Madame Cassiei- * * (Van Houtte). — Moderately vigorous 

 habit ; leaves broad and very flat, marked by a dark zone ; 

 flowers deep rose pink, with white base, and of good shape. 

 Under glass it was of second-rate merit, and the leaves 

 became indistinctly zoned. 



JfijHiie** (Rollisson). — Moderately rigorous habit ; leaves 

 ■with a dark zone ; flowers in good trusses, pale rose pink 

 with a white base. 



Mrs. Wldtty (Carter & Co.). — ^Moderately vigorous habit ; 

 leaves marked with a duU, broad, unequal zone ; flowers 

 deep rose pink, white at the base. Much in the way of but 

 not so good as Helen Lindsay. 



Sose Rendatler * * * (Downie & Co.). — Moderately vigorous 

 habit ; leaves with a dark vandyked zone near the centre ; 



flowers lively rose pink, with a white base, of good shapa, 

 and borne in compact trusses. A fine sort both for beds 

 and pot culture. 



Roseum Nanum (Salter). — Dwarf, free habit ; leaves daxk 

 zoned ; flowers of good shape, rose pink, white at the base. 

 A useful free-flowering variety. 



SERIES m.-M.^RBLED-LEAVED ZONATE VARIETIES. 



Dayspring (Dison). — Moderately vigorous habit; leaves 

 with yellowish green radiating centre, and no dark zone ; 

 flowers deep scarlet. A rather pretty variety, and quite dis- 

 tinct in its foliage. 



Lady of Loretto (E. G. Henderson & Son). — Moderately 

 vigorous spreading habit ; marbled leaves ; flowers cerise- 

 scarlet. 



Pigmy (HaUy). — D warf habit ; leaves marbled ; flowers 

 scarlet. 



Prince Arthur (Hally). — Moderately vigorous spreading 

 habit ; leaves marbled and very darkly zoned ; flowers light 

 scarlet. 



Rcse of Lee (Hally). — Vigorous habit; leaves marbled; 

 flowers cerise scarlet. 



Sheen Rival * * * (Kinghorn). — Moderately vigorous habit; 

 leaves darkly zoned and marbled with light green ; flowers 

 bright light scarlet, of good form, in fine trusses. 

 SERIES IV.— NOSEGAY VARIETIES. 

 1. LEAVES ZONATE. 



Beaton's Pet (Carter & Co.). — Very dwarf habit ; leaves 

 marked with a duU zone ; flowers loose, in small trusses, of 

 a bright rosy crimson. The plant was in a weak condition. 



Carminatum Improved (Carter & Co.). — Moderately vigorous 

 habit ; leaves indistinctly zoned ; flowers crimson magenta. 



Carmine Nosegay (E. G. Henderson k Son). — Moderately 

 vigorous habit; leaves with a faint narrow green zone; 

 flowers deep cerise, in moderate trusses. 



Cybister *** (Carter & Co.). — Full vigorous habit; leaves 

 large, with dull olive zone ; flowers in large trusses, well 

 thi-own up, narrow petaled, scarlet. It is of a very effective 

 colour, brighter and lighter than Stella, but with longer and 

 narrower petals. 



Imperial Crimson (Turner). — Dwarf spreading habit; leaves 

 with a faint narrow green zone ; flowers loose, narrow- 

 petaled, in small trusses, magenta rose. 



Lady Cullum** (Carter & Co.). — Dwarf habit; leaves 

 marked with an indistinct zone ; flowers free, loose, lilac pink, 

 mth a white base. 



Lord Palmerston * * (Carter & Co.). — Dwarf and moderately 

 vigorous habit ; leaves with very faint zone ; flowers in small 

 trasses, the plant being weak, cerise-scarlet, changing to 

 magenta. 



Madame P. Gaspard (Salter). — Moderately vigorous habit ; 

 leaves with an indistinct green zone; flowers thin and loose, 

 deep rose pink. 



Magenta** (E. G. Henderson & Son). — Vigorous habit; 

 leaves broad with a darkish vandyked zone ; flowers distinct 

 and ahowy, of a semi-nosegay character, the trusses thrown 

 well up, and freely produced. Approved chiefly for colour. 



Merrimae*** (Salter). — Moderately vigorous habit; leaves 

 with a broad dull zone; flowers in immense heads, deep 

 cerise or carmine rose, the blossoms broad-petaled for one 

 of the nosegay race. It was grown only in i^ots, and was in 

 this way quite first-rate. 



Mernmac * * (Carter & Co.). — Moderately vigorous habit; 

 leaves with narrow olive zone; flowers broad-petaled, in 

 moderate trusses, cerise rose. 



Monitor * * (Carter & Co.). — Rather dwarf spreading habit; 

 leaves lobed, with a dull brown zone ; fiowers large and 

 broad for one of the nosegay race, dull orange scarlet. Desir- 

 able from its colour. 



Red Nosegay (Taylor). — Moderately vigorous habit; leaves 

 with faint narrow green zone; flowers cerise scarlet, in 

 moderate trusses. 



Rival Nosegay (Carter & Co.). — Moderately vigorous habit ; 

 flowers large and broad-petaled as a nosegay, in good trusses, 

 of a deep magenta shaded with crimson. Noc one of the 

 semi-nosegay race. 



Stella * * * (E. G. Henderson & Son). — Vigorous habit ; 

 leaves with dark zone ; flowers in bold trasses, broader- 

 petaled than Cybister, and of a deeper scarlet. One of the 

 finest of aU Pelai-goniums for eft'ect. 



