Descriptive Catalogue. 45 



The Marchioness. See Class 3. 

 The Duchess See Novelties. 

 Village Maid. Flowers bright deep pink, clear white blotch on upper petal. 



NEWER ZONALE and JSOSEGAY GERAMU31S. 



Class 3. 



The varieties in this class are all recent importations, and comprise the very 

 finest of their classes, sent out by the best growers of England and the conti- 

 nent. 



Price 30 cents each ; $3 per dozen. 



Arlequin. Bright salmon flower, average size and good substance, beautifully 



and distinctly striped with white; nice truss, and fine dark-zoned foliage. 

 Albert Memorial. Color intense bright scarlet in the way of Jean Sisley, with 



immense trusses, growth vigorous and robust, a beautiful variety. 

 Crimson King. Dark crimson, shaded with violet; extra large truss, dwarf 



compact habit, a most profuse bloomer, new color. 

 Commander-in-Chief. Color brilliant scarlet, immense truss, and large pip, 



growth exceedingly vigorous, and profuse bloomer. 

 Craven Fox. Rosy scarlet, pip large and beautifully formed, fine truss. This 



variety will be found an acquisition. 

 Diana. Flowers deep rich velvety crimson, of good form and substance, trusses 



fair size and freely produced ; resembles in color Louis Veuillot. 

 George Peabody. A very brilliant deep scarlet ; flowers of fine form and sub- 

 stance, produced in large truces. 

 Great Eastern. The finest scarlet bedding variety ever sent out. The trusses 



are enormous, and the individual flowers of immense size. 

 Harrold. Upper petals rose, shaded with violet, under petals rose, margined 



with vermilion, good grower and bedder. 

 Iago. Flowers bright orange scarlet, large and well formed, producing a bold, 



conspicuous truss. 

 Ianthe. Flowers purple crimson, the purple predominating in the lower petals; 



flow T ers of large size, good shape and substance, very beautiful. 

 Lady C. Kennedy. An intense bright scarlet in the way of Jean Sisley, but 



very superior, one of the finest scarlet. 

 Mr. Gladstone. Color rich scarlet, shaded with purple, the edges of petals 



shaded with carmine ; the pips very large, of good substance. 

 Marginata. This is a most distinct variety ; each petal and flower distinctly 



lined or edge round with pink, on white ground. 

 Marathan. Deep purple, color quite novel and very beautiful, trusses large, 



compact and freely produced. 

 Monica. Flowers white, with salmon centre, of good shape and large size. 

 Mrs. Edward Ottewell. This is a most beautiful eerise orange scarlet, with a 



conspicuous white eye, possessing an immense truss. 

 Mercy Grogan. Color glowing scarlet, carries larger trusses, fully five inches 



over, the finest Zonale truss of bloom perhaps ever seen. 

 Orbiculata. Intense fiery scarlet, large truss and pip, very finest one of the 



best dwarf bedders yet sent out. 

 Purity, (Bull.) The purest white Geranium in cultivation, good habit. This 



plant when well known will be extensively grown, very extra. 

 Pioneer. Color violet purple tint, combined" with rich magenta rose, dwarf 



compact habit, profuse bloomer. 

 Peabody. This is the best and brightest purple scarlet in the Madame Mezard 



class yet sent out. and cannot fail to give the greatest satisfaction. 

 Princess of Wales. This produces the finest trusses of any Hybrid Nosegay; 



its monstrous trusses strike every one with surprise; color' bright orange. 

 Sir C. Napier. It is almost precisely the same Geranium as Lord Derby, with 



a decided improvement in every way; some of its blooms are really most 



splendid in shape. 

 Striata Formosa. Bright salmon flower, average size and good substance, 



beautifully and distinctly striped with white. 



