This beautiful plant is a hybrid production, and 
was raised at the Nursery of Mr. Colvill, from a seed 
of P. ruhescens that was fertilized by the pollen of P. 
ignescens. We have named it in compliment to Lady 
Broughton, of Hoole, near Chester, a great admirer of, 
and an extensive cultivator of Geraniacese and other 
plants, and an encourager of botanical science. 
The present subject is a very handsome-growing 
plant, and continues to bloom all the summer and 
till late in autumn : it also grows very freely, and ap- 
pears to be more hardy than most others to which it is 
related. It thrives well in an equal mixture of turfy 
loam, peat, and sand, and only requires watering when 
quite dry. Cuttings of it strike root freely, if planted 
in pots in the same kind of soil, and placed on a shelf 
in the greenhouse. 
