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heat, and they can be sown in summer as soon as 

 ripe, which is the best plan, or in the early spring. 

 In order that they may germinate successfully, the 

 seeds when sown should be placed in a temperature 

 of 50" to 60^^, and they will soon germinate, and 

 when they are large enough to handle should be 

 potted off singly into small pots, or be placed four 

 or six in a five-inch pot, and when large enough 

 potted off — using a fine, light, sandy soil — in forty- 

 eight-sized pots. In this size of pot the plants should 

 be allowed to flower. "When seed is sown in August 

 the plants will not flower until early summer follow- 

 ing ; when sown in spring the plants will bloom the 

 same season if grown on into size with attention. 



Selections of Pelargoniums. 



Large-floweved or Show Varieties. 



Ambassador. 



Amethyst. 



Brilliant. 



Claribel. 



Confessor. 



Cornet. 



Despot. 



Duke of Norfolk. 

 Fortitude. 

 Illuminator. 

 Magnate. 



Maid of Honour. 



Margaret. 



Martial. 



Outlaw. 



Pericles. 



Eetreat. 



Eoyal Eeview. 



Sunbeam. 



The Baron. 



Veter^in. 



Virgin Queen. 



Decorative and Spotted Varieties. 



Captain Eaikes (double) . 



Carl Klein (double] . 



Decorator. 



Digby Grand. 



Dresden China. 



Dr. Masters. 



Duchess of Edinburgh. 



Edward Perkins. 



Formosa. 



Gold Mine. 



Kingston Beauty. 



Lady Isabel. 

 Lucie Lemoine. 

 Maid of Kent. 

 Marie Lemoine, 

 Mrs. John Hayes. 

 Prince of Novelties 



(double). 

 Queen Victoria (double), 

 Triomphe de St. Mande. 

 Venus de Milo (double). 

 Volante Rationale. 



Bridesmaid. 

 Cloth of Silver. 

 Countess of Dudley 

 East Lynne. 

 Ellen Beck. 

 Fanny Gair. 

 Indian Chief. 

 Lady Carrington. 



Fancy Varieties. 



Miss Goddard. 

 Mrs. Alfred Wigan. 



Mrs. Hart. 

 Mrs. Langtry. 

 Nelly Fordham 

 Pilgrimage. 

 Pr ncess Teck. 

 The Shah. 

 Vivandiere. 



Zonal and Nosegay Varieties {Single 



Alarm. 

 Bayard. 



Charles Schwind. 

 David Thomson. 

 Dr. Denuy. 

 Dr. Orton. 

 Dreadnought. 

 Ferdinand de Lesseps. 

 Fixture Fame. 

 Guinea. 

 John Gibbons. 

 Lady Byron. 

 Lady Sheffield. 

 Lizzie Brooks. 

 Lord Nelson. 



Lucy Bosworth 

 Mr. Chandler. 

 Mrs. George. 

 Mrs. Holden, 

 Mrs. Leavei's. 

 Mrs. Moore. 

 Nemesis. 



Queen of the Belgians. 



Eosa Little. 



Suowdon. 



Sophie Birkin. 



Titauia. 



Vesuvius. 



White Clipper. 



Zonal Varieties (Bouhle). 



Auguste Villaume. 

 Charles Darwm. 

 Depute Laflize. 

 EdVard Lequin. 

 Emilie de Girardin. 



F. V. 



Guillon Maugilli. 

 Henri Canuell (Le- 

 moine). 

 Heroine. 



La Candeur. 

 Lord Mayor. 

 Louis Buchner. 

 Lucie Lemoine. 

 Madame A. Baltet. 

 Madame Lemoine. 



Madame Michael Buch- 

 ner. 



Madame Thiers. 

 Prince Noir. 

 Eoi des Violettes. 

 Wonderful. 



Golden Tricolour Varieties. 



E E. Benyon. 

 Florence. 

 John Downie. 

 Lady Cullum. 

 Macbeth. 

 Marie Stuart. 



Mrs. Henry Cox. 

 Mrs. Pollock. 

 Peter Grieve, 

 Prince of Wales 

 Sophia Dumaresque, 

 Wilham Sandy. 



Silver Tricolour Varieties. 



Dolly Varden. 

 Minnie Warren. 

 Miss Farren. 

 Mrs. Glutton. 

 Mrs. Col. Wilkinson. 



Mrs. Laing. 

 Mrs, Miller. 

 Porteous. 



Prince Silverwings. 

 Princess Beatrice. 



Gold and Bronze or Bicolours. 



Black Douglas. 

 Distinction, 

 Eft'ective, 

 Joseph Kirkham, 

 King of the Bronzes. 

 Mar^chal McMahon. 



Prince Henry. 

 Prince of Prussia, 

 Eegularity. 

 Swanley Bronze. 

 White Distinction. 

 Zulu. 



Creed's Sepdling. 

 Crystal Palace Gem. 

 Golden Chain. 



Golden or Yellow-hand Sections. 



International. 

 Eobert Fish. 



Ivy-leaved Varieties (Double). 



Abel Carriere. 

 Alice Crousse. 

 Comte H. de Choiseuil. 

 Docteur Ox. 

 Glo're d'Orleans. 

 Isidore Feral. 

 Jeanne d'Arc. 

 Konig Albert, 



Madame Crousse, 

 Madame E, Galle. 

 Mdlle. Wouters. 

 Prince of Wales, 

 Souvenir de Charles 



Turner, 

 Vesta. 



Ivy.leaved Varieties (Single). 



Argus. Mon, de Boringe. 



Diadem, Mon. Dubus. 



Li France. Mrs. H. Cannell. 



Masteri)iece, Progress. 



Pentstemon.— This is one of the most useful 

 and showy of hardy perennials, and it is a plant 

 that has been marvellously improved of late years. 

 It is a plant of foreign introduction, and the name 

 is derived from pente, " five," and stemon, " a stamen " 

 — four fertile and one abortive stamen. It has no 

 common name other than that which heads this 

 article. 



The Pentstemon represents a large genus of her- 

 baceous perennials, very ornamental and among the 

 prettiest of summer-flowering plants. Some of the 

 species are of a sub-shrubby habit, but they are 

 rarely grown now, having given place to a large lot 

 of fine plants in the shape of seedlings raised from 

 P. Cobcea, P. Hartwegii, P. gentianoides, and others, all 

 of which can be increased by means of cuttings and 

 seeds. The original P. Rartmegii produced flowers 

 of a kind of dullish crimson-purple, but seedlings 

 from it have developed many shades of colour, 

 from white to the deepest crimson and purple. 



