Plate 175. 



PELARGONIUM — " BEAUTY OF OXTON." 



The whole stock of this new " Regal" Pelargonium now illustrated, is in the possession 

 of Mr. William Bull, of Chelsea, and it will, we understand, be sent out by him for the 

 first time during next month (September). A glance at our Plate will show this plant to be 

 a first-class novelty, with flowers similar in form to Mr. Bull's well-known Queen Victoria, 

 but of quite a different colour. The upper petals are of a very rich maroon colour, and 

 darkly blotched ; the under petals very dark crimson, shaded with maroon, and a light centre 

 tinted with rose ; all the petals are attractively and regularly margined with white, and 

 beautifully fringed. The flowers are large and very full, the extra number of petals giving 

 them the appearance of being semi-double. The name " Eegal" is applied to the fine group 

 of Pelargoniums, the flowers of which are distinguished by their large size and very rich and 

 showy appearance. Though they are not really double, yet from the fulness of form, and 

 the extra number of petals in the blossoms, they have the appearance of being so. A reference 

 to Mr. Bull's new catalogue, or a visit to his establishment at Chelsea, is necessary to 

 properly appreciate the large number of first-class novelties he has at the present time in 

 the way of Pelargoniums of all varieties. Amongst others is a lovely New Double-flowered 

 Ivy-leaved Pelargonium (which we hope shortly to illustrate), named Kunig Albert. 

 This beautiful variety of P. lateripes has been raised by Herr Oscar Liebmann, of Dresden, 

 from whom Mr. Bull has purchased the half-stock, with the exclusive right of sale in all 

 countries except Germany and Austria. The flowers of this plant are double, of a bright 

 violet-pink colour and excellent form. 



Plate 176. 

 CATTLEYA TRIANJE COLEMANII. 



We are indebted to Mr. B. S. Williams, of the Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, Upper 

 Holloway, for the opportunity of figuring this surpassingly beautiful variety of Caltleija 

 Triance. We are informed by Mr. Williams that it was flowered by Mr. Stocking, the 

 gardener at Stoke Park, Slough, and it has been named after Mr. Coleman the proprietor. 

 It is of very free growth, a profuse bloomer, and continues a long time in flower; the 

 immense size and beautiful colouring of the limb and throat of the labellum rendering it an 

 acquisition of the first excellence. In previous volumes we have figured other varieties of 

 this perhaps the most beautiful of all the winter-flowering Cattleyas. C. Triance is notoriously 

 variable both in form and colour, but it always makes a first-class plant, either for the green- 

 house, the table, or for exhibition purposes. One well-known form has the petals and sepals 

 snow-white, with only a faint sulphur-coloured blotch on the throat, whilst another has 

 sepals and petals full rose colour, with the labellum intense velvety crimson. There is every 

 intermediate shade of colour between these two extremes, and the plants vary to a similar 

 extent in the breadth or narrowness and thickness or substance of the different parts of the 

 bloom. C. Triance does well in an ordinary stove or intermediate house, and is usually grown 

 in fresh, open, well-drained compost, consisting of fibrous peat, sphagnum, and coarse well 

 washed sand. It requires an abundance of water during the summer and autumn, when it 

 will generally flower in profusion (if grown in quantities) for two or three of the first months 

 of the year, each bloom lasting some two or three weeks. C. Triance is often grown under 

 the name of C. Warscewiczii. 



