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JOTTEXAL OF HORTICULTtmE ASD COTTAGE GARDENER. 



r Jime27,16SJ. 



Sieber retamed to Europe, with a coUeotion of dried plants. 

 the bulk of which was contained in a number of cases, and 

 it took agfain a considerable time to arran^ and publish 

 the several centuries of the " Flora Exsiccata Nova) Hol- 

 landitB," in his house at Prague. He was altogether an ex- 

 ceedinglj" active and successful collector, because even the 

 number of bird and other skins he brought with him was 

 surprising. His correspondence with the first botanists of 

 Europe increased every day, and a genus of plants (Siebera), 

 and numerous species were called after him. 



Sieber was in the habit of often writing to Vienna, and 

 when such letters arrived, the Emperor would say, " Oh, let 

 John (.\rchdufce John) read them to me at table." It may 

 be that our friend might before, and on a critical occasion, in 

 1S20, have alluded to political events. So much is certain, 

 that on his return from Sydney, he stated to the captain of 

 the ship, that there were agents of Prince Metternich abroad 

 who had orders to murder him. Sieber, like all men who 

 have accomplished aught extraordinary, was a highly cul- 

 ivdted person, and at a later period, about 1827, he was 

 ..c-upied in a dramatic work, " Plato in Sicily." However, 

 all his MSS. on various subjects have disappeared. His 

 mind was now occupied with subjects extraneous to his 

 original' pursuits, and tlius it cannot be surprising to find 

 him, in 1830, in Paris, engaged in the political affairs of the 

 French Kevolution. His collections had been transferred to 

 Vienna, and as Professor Lichtenstein (the African traveller) 

 was in the Austrian capital, portions of it were transferred 

 to the Berlin Museum. Then, that life-full and bright 

 career which had begun amongst the choicest plants and 

 flowers of the Styrian and Carinthian Alps, and had pursued 

 its course in southern Italy, in Crete, Egypt, and New 

 Holland, drew to a sad and melancholy end. Whether Sieber 

 became really insane or not I cannot say, but my poor friend 

 died (be it said to the eternal shame of the Prague autho- 

 rities), in the lunatic department of the hospital of that 

 city. 



His works and plans, however, survive him to a certain 

 degree, because some of his pupils travelled and collected in 

 Kordofan, and other most remote places. His method of 

 preserving, and well preserving, thousands of specimens of 

 dried plants, is worthy of being generally known. — L. 



EEPOET OX THE BEDDIXG PELARGONIUMS 

 GEOTVN AT CIIISWICK, 1864. 



By 7nouAs Moo&e, F.L.S., Secretary to thb Floeal Committer. 

 {Concluded from page 470.) 



SERIES v.— SILVER VARIEGATED VARIETIES. 



1. LEAVES ZONATE AND MAEOINATB. 



(«) Marr/ins vjldte. 



Argus*** (G. Smith). — Moderately vigorous habit; leaves 



with whitish edge and indistinct pink zone ; flowers very 



bright light scarlet, well formed, and in good trusses. 



Surninj Bush {XIaMy) . — Dwarf habit; leaves with whitish 

 edg-e and pink zone ; flowers light scarlet. 



Countess of Warwick • * • (Kinghorn). — Vigorous free habit ; 

 leaves whitish at the edge and with a dark red zone ; flowers 

 abnndant, scarlet. 



Blegans (E. G. Henderson & Son). — Moderately vigorous 

 habit ; leaves white-edged and faintly pink-zoned ; flowers 

 ceriBe. 



FontaiTiebleau. • • • (E. G. Henderson & Son, Scott).— Dwarf 

 habit ; leaves with a whitish margin and a faint pink zone ; 

 flowers cerise. 



Julia** (Turner). — Vigorous habit; leaves with very 

 alight pink zone and whitiah margin ; flowers scarlet, in 

 good trusses. 



Little Beauty (E. G. Henderson & Son).— Dwarf habit; 

 leaves very white at the edge, with a deep red zone ; flowers 

 scarlet. 



Picturalum* * * (Turner). — DwarfiKh habit; leaves flat, 

 with whitish edge and well-marked i<ink zone ; flowers light 

 scarlet. 



JlainJjov; (Scott). — Moflerately vigorous ; leaves with pink 

 zone and whitish clge; flowers light scarlet. 

 81. Clair* ** (Turner). — Free and moderately vigorous 



habit; leaves cupped, whitish at the edj^e, and having a 

 dull zone ; flowers rather narrow -petaled, in fine trusses,, 

 pale cerise pinV. Also grown as Victoria. 



Silver CTiain** (Scott, E. G. Henderson). — Compact dwarf' 

 hatit ; leaves with a broad whitish edge, flat, with indica- 

 tions of being zonate; flowers bright rosy cerise, large and 

 well formed, darker than those of Venus, which it very 

 olosely resembles-: the foliage, however, is better. 



The Countess (E. <r. Henderson & Son). — Vigorous and 

 coarse in habit ; leaves with whitish edge and dark zone ; 

 flowers scarlet. 



2 lEAVES MAKSINATE, NOT ZONATB. 

 (a) Margins white. 

 Alm-a*** (Scott, Turner). — Moderately vigorous habit ; 

 leaves with a broad whitish edge ; flowers deep scarlet. Of 

 free healthy growth. 



Bijou*** (Low & Co., Turner). — Moderately vigorous; 

 leaves flat, with a whitish edge ; flowers of good form, soar- 

 let. Considered better than Jane, but of a more compact- 

 growing habit. 



Jane**'' (Turner). — Moderately vigorous habit; leaves 

 whitish at the margin, rather cupped ; flowers scarlet. Of 

 good free habit, covering the ground well. 



Mangles's Variegated (Scott)i — Of free spreading habit; 

 leaves lobed, with abroad whitish edge ; flowers small, pink. 

 Useful. 



Mountain of Light (Praser). — Dwarf habit; leaves whitish 

 at the edge ; flowers scarlet 



Mountain of Snoxc (Fraser). — Dwarf; leaves with whitish 

 edges ; flowers loose, scarlet. 



Mrs. Zennox (Taylor) . — Dwarfish habit; leaves white-edged; 

 flowers scarlet. The whitest- marked in the collection, but 

 considered to be practically superseded by Bijou and Jane. 



Queen of Queens*** (Bull). — Moderately dwarf; leaves 

 whitish at the edge ; flowers scarlet. A free grower, and 

 dwarfer in habit than Jane. 



Variegated Dandy (Scott). — ^Very dwarf and compact; 

 leaves very small, with a narrow whitish edge. Useful in 

 some situations; 



(6) Margins cream-coloured. 

 Annie** (Kinghorn). — Vigorous habit; leaves large, with 

 a broad creamy edge; flowers scarlet, of a free and rather 

 coarse habit. 



Flower of Spring*** (Turner). — Moderately vigorous 

 compact habit ; leaves broadly edged with cream colour ;. 

 flowers large, of good form, deep cerise-scarlet. 



HendersoniiCE. G. Henderson & Son).— Of rather coarse 

 habit ; leaves creamy at the edge ; flowers scarlet. 



Koli^i-noor (Scott).. — Dwai-fish habit; loaves with creamy 

 edge. 



Lady Plymouth (Tui-ner, Fraser) .—Of free spreading habit; 

 leaves bipinnatifid, with creamy edges. An old useful sort. 

 Maid of Orleans (Scott). — Dwarf habit; leaves with cream- 

 coloured edges ; flowers pale cerise-scarlet. 



Meteor** (Dixon). — Moderately vigorous habit; leaves, 

 with a broad creamy-white edge ; flowers deep scarlet. 



Silver Queen** * (Taylor). — Vigorous habit ; leaves large, 

 round, scarcely lobed, flat, with a weU-deflned broadish 

 creamy edge ; flowers abundant, loose, rose-pink. 



The Bouquet (E. G. Henderson & Son).— Moderately vigor- 

 ous habit; leaves-creamy at the edge, cupped; flowers duU 

 cerise. 



Variegated Prince of Orange (Fraser). — Dwai'f compact 

 habit; leaves small, "lobod, scented, narrowly edged with 

 cream colour. 



Venus (E. G. Henderson & Son). — Dwarf compact habit;, 

 leaves with a broad creamy edge ; flowers bright rosy cerise. 

 Similar to Silver Chain, but a few shades less pure in the 

 colour of the leaf. 



6ERIB8 VI.-GOLDEM VAKIF.OATED VAHIETIESi 

 1. LEAVES ZONATB AN» MAIIGINATE. 



Golden Baron Tlugel (Wills).— Very dwarf spreading habit; 

 leaves with ii bronzy zone ; flowers scarlet. 



Golden Woodimrdiana (Wills).— Kat her vigorous habit; 

 loaves yellowish-green, with indistinct bronze zone; flowers 

 BC.irlet, of good form. 



Lottie (Wills).- Dwarf habit ; leaves yellowish witH bronze 

 zone ; flowers cerise-scarlet. 



