Plate 369. 



DECORATIVE PELARGONIUM, NELLIE HAYES. 



The term " Decorative " Pelargoniums has been applied to a group of good-habitecl, 

 free-growing, and remarkably profuse-flowering varieties, that are, by reason of these 

 characteristics, well-adapted for market work, and for the decoration of greenhouses, &c. 

 Their flowers generally lack the fine shape and outline found in the florists' varieties of 

 the large -flowering or show Pelargoniums; at the same time they are most useful, and 

 many of them having pretty fringed petals, they are esteemed all the more on that 

 account. 



The variety forming the subject of our illustration, was raised by Messrs. J. and J. 

 Hayes, of Edmonton, the well-known market growers, and when exhibited at the meeting 

 of the Royal Horticultural Society on June 10th, was awarded a First-class Certificate 

 of Merit. The flowers, which are of large size and handsome appearance, have a blush- 

 pink ground, with a dark blotch on each petal, which is edged with magenta. It is a 

 very pleasing and pretty variety, and will, no doubt, become popular for market work and 

 house decoration. 



Plate 370. 

 CLEMATIS, MARIE LEFEBVRE. 



This very fine variety is one of the first batch of C. lanuginosa hybrids raised by 

 Messrs. Thomas Cripps & Sons, Nurserymen, Tunb ridge Wells. It belongs to the 

 C. lanuginosa section, and requires the same treatment as is given to that fine type, and 

 the forms allied to it. The flowers are very large in size, having from six to eight broad 

 sepals of a fine satiny texture ; in some seasons the blooms show a tendency to become 

 semi-double. The colour is bright mauve, with a distinct and much deeper-coloured bar 

 down the centre of each sepal, while the light- coloured stamens and chocolate anthers 

 contrast well with the striking-coloured sepals. 



The moist, cool summer is bringing out in a remarkable degree the high-class 

 decorative value of the hardy Clematises. Those who grow them in beds or for covering 

 rustic wood-work and such places, have their plants growing vigorously and flowering 

 superbly. They can be used in so many ways, that their capacity for usefulness is as 

 large as the extent of variety to be found among them. 



