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ROYAL nOHTICrLTTJRAL SOCIETY. 
Eeport on Double-flowered Pelargoniums. 
Bj Thomas Moore, F.II.S., Floral Director. 
A collection, consisting of forty varieties of these novel and useful 
plants, was grown at Chiswick during the past year. They were also, with 
one or two exceptions indicated below, presented to the garden by Mr. 
WilHam Bull, of Chelsea, and formed one of the features of interest in the 
garden during the late summer months. Having been received in the 
spring in the shape of small plants^ it was decided to cultivate them in pots 
under glass, for which purpose these Pelargoniums seem especially useful. 
They were accordingly grown with much success in moderate-sized pots, 
and bloomed remarkably well in one of the span-roofed greenhouses, their 
healthy character reflecting much credit on Mr. Barron and his assistants. 
The accompanying notes indicate the condition as to habit and inflores- 
cence which these plants assumed, and may be regarded as recording as 
fair a verdict on their respective merits as could be arrived at from the 
growth of a single individual of each kind. The certified sorts, indicated 
by asterisks in the subjoined description-list, were the following : — 
First-class Certificates. 
Marie Lcmoine, Madame Lemoinc, Victor Leraoine, Gloire de Nancy. 
Second-class Certificates. 
S])arkhill Beauty, Imperatrice Eugenie, Andrew Henderson, Victor, Wil- 
helm Pfitzer, Memnon, Le Vcsuve, Triomphe de Thumesnil, Triomphe de 
Lorraine, Signet. 
The following is a transcript of notes made at intervals during the follow- 
ing season : — 
Albina. Vigorous, with faintly zoned leaves, the trusses small; the flowers 
of a dee]) rose-pink, rather darker in colour than those of Madame 
Leraoine. 
Andrew Henderson **. This variety is of moderately vigorous growth, 
with faintly zoned leaves, and compact trusses of orange-scarlet flow^ers 
very freely produced. It is an ornamental variety well worth growing. 
Ascendency. Moderately vigorous in growth, with faintly zoned leaves ; 
but too near Gloire dc Nancy in the flowers. 
Capitaine l'Hermite. a vigorous-growing sort now superseded, with 
faintly zoned leaves, and loose cerise-scarlet flowers. 
Conqueror. A vigorous-growing variety, with green leaves and poor 
scarlet fl owners. 
Consul. A vigorous-growing sort, with faintly zonate leaves; the flowers 
light scarlet, in a loose truss. 
CoTTiNGTON. A dwarf-growing small-leaved bedding variety, with quite 
the habit and general character of the old Tom Thumb'; the flowers 
scarlet, semidouble, loose, larger than those of Madame Rose Charmeux, 
and forming large and more showy trusses. 
Delight. Dwarf and moderately vigorous in habit, with indistinctly zo- 
