Plate 179. 



NEW DOUBLE-FLOWERED IVY-LEAYED PELARGONIUM— " KONIG ALBERT." 



We mentioned this valuable and handsome new plant in our last number, and now we 

 have the pleasure of giving a coloured figure of it, taken at the nursery at Chelsea belonging 

 to Mr. Bull, which latter gentleman has the exclusive right of the sale of the plant in this 

 country. Pelargonium lateripes (Konig Albert) is an attractive and splendid novelty, recently 

 raised by Herr Oscar Liebmann, of Dresden, from whom Mr. Bull purchased the half stock, 

 with the exclusive right of disposing of it in the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, America, 

 and all other countries, Germany and Austria excepted, the right of distributing it in these 

 two countries remaining with Oscar Liebmann himself. The flowers of this beautiful 

 Pelargonium are of a bright violet-pink colour, with deep carmine stripes down the veins of 

 the upper petals. The shape is very good, and the form thoroughly double ; it is, indeed, 

 the first and only double variety known in the section to which it belongs ; added to this, 

 it is a profuse bloomer, with beautiful foliage, and a very compact and handsome habit. 

 Ivy-leaved Pelargoniums are seen at their best when used as edging plants, as decorative 

 window plants, or as grown in hanging baskets for conservatory decoration ; the wax-like 

 leaves being thick and succulent, they are as a consequence well suited for ribbon beds, 

 window-sills, &c. This succulence makes them well able to resist drought and dust, and a 

 good soil and abundant moisture can be dispensed with without inconvenience. It is a very 

 easy matter to increase Ivy-leaved Pelargoniums by cuttings in a light sandy soil in the 

 open air during August ; they will then be well rooted before early winter, and make good 

 plants for the following spring. 



Plate 180. 



ANTHURIUM (SCHERZERIANUM) WILLI AMSII. 



The subject here illustrated will undoubtedly form one of the greatest acquisitions 

 introduced for many years past ; it has precisely the same habit of growth and freshness of 

 flowering of the now old Anthurium Scherzerianum, and each bloom remains from three to 

 four months in perfection — a desideratum scarcely to be found in the blooms of any other 

 plant. The spathe is pure ivory-white in colour, and the spadix is pale lemon-colour. 

 The plant is of somewhat slow growth, and we have, therefore, not yet seen the blooms so 

 large as in the magnificent plants of A. Scherzerianum as now commonly seen ; but the 

 inflorescences are quite equal to the latter as it was first known on introduction to England. 

 Anthurium Williamsii should be grown on a light rich soil, consisting of rough fibrous peat 

 and sphagnum, with a little charcoal. As the plant when growing requires a good supply 

 of water, it should have plenty of drainage, and be potted in a rather light manner. Anthu- 

 rium Williamsii will be distributed from the Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, Upper Hollo- 

 way, by Mr. B. S. Williams (who holds the stock, and to whom we are indebted for the 

 opportunity of making this drawing), in the first week of October next. The plant, as is 

 well known, first attracted great attention in the early spring of last year, and it was figured 

 and described for the first time in the Gardeners' Chronicle for April 18th, 1874. It was 

 exhibited by Mr. Williams at the Royal Horticultural Society on April 1st of the same year, 

 and we had previously to this time both seen it in flower and sketched it at the famous 

 Upper Holloway establishment. Mr. Williams considers this plant to be the greatest 

 novelty of the season, and likely to be an equal favourite with A. Scherzerianum itself. 



