Plate 303. 



CYCLAMEN PERSICUM GIGANTEUM ROSEUM. 



Mr. Fitch's excellent sketch of this fine variety of the large-flowering Cyclamen 

 Persicum does only scant justice to a form of great beauty and attractiveness. It is only 

 comparatively recently that a type of large-flowering Cyclamen has originated, and now it 

 has yielded so many fine shades of colour that its general cultivation is rapidly extending- 

 At first it was thought that size of flower would be gained at the expense of quantity ; but 

 the large types are found to be remarkably free of bloom, almost, or quite as much so, as 

 the smaller-flowered varieties. The variety now figured is in possession of Messrs. Sutton 

 and Sons, seedsmen, Reading; and a short time since, when visiting their London Road 

 Nursery, we saw a large number of plants of this beautiful variety of all sizes, and the very 

 smallest one blooming profusely. The prevailing colour is pink, dashed with lilac-rose ; it 

 is peculiarly soft and pleasing ; the flowers are of large size and finely formed. The finely- 

 marked foliaged seen in our illustration is strikingly present in the plants. It has been 

 found to come quite true from seed, and having been carefully selected and grown in a house 

 by itself, to save it from chance of impregnation ; any danger of failure to realise this fine 

 type from seed in all its beauty is reduced to the minimum of probability. 



Plate 304 

 NEW ZONAL PELARGONIUMS. 



In the December number of the Floral Magazine we gave an illustration of a striped 

 sport from the well-known Zonal Pelargonium Vesuvius, under the name of " New Life." 

 This was the first of a series of sports, and we now figure two more of them, under the names 

 of White Vesuvius (fig. 1), and Salmon Vesuvius (fig. 2). They are both counterparts of the 

 useful scarlet Vesuvius, with the difference in colour. The former has pure white flowers, 

 the latter is of a pleasing bright salmon hue. The white variety has been awarded a First- 

 class Certificate of merit by the Royal Horticultural Society. The original Vesuvius is one 

 of the most useful of Zonal Pelargoniums, being of great service for out-door bedding, for 

 greenhouse decoration, and for growing in pots in winter and spring for cut bloom. There 

 is no doubt but that the two new sports will prove equally useful, and it is said the market 

 growers are already laying in stocks of both. They are now being distributed by Mr. Henry 

 Cannell, nurseryman, Swanley, to whom we are indebted for examples of these new and 

 useful types. 



