OPINIONS OP THE PRESS. 
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WILLS’ NEW PELARGONIUMS— Continued. 
PERILLA, flowers of a bright orange scarlet, borne in large trusses on stout footstalks well above 
the foliage, the leaves arc very attractive, showing a deep, broad, and well-defined zone, some- 
what tho colour of Pcrilla nanhinensls, on a magnificent yellow and green ground. No idea can 
bo formed of the beauty of a mass of this most novel and striking bedding plant when tho sun is 
shining upon it in its various stages ofdevelopement ; it shows different shades of colour; the young 
leaves are nearly scarlet and black, those half developed yellow and very dark maroon, whilst 
those that are fully matured have a beautiful reddish tint, which, with the bright orange scarlet 
flowers, give to the whole a most pleasing and effective appearance. Tho habit of the plant is 
free and vigorous, and each leaf is a perfect model of symmetry. 1 5s. 
PRINCESS ALICE, habit compact, and the foliage very bright and beautiful, the plant produces 
a great profusion of large trusses of fine-formed flowers of a beautiful rosy lilac colour ; the flowers 
are very large, and arc shown to great advantage above the beautiful red and bronze foliage. This 
is a magnificent bedding variety, and will be largely used for this purpose. 15«. 
VICEROY, leaves quite round and flat, with a beautiful yellowish green disc, zone broad and well 
defined, leaf of great substance, habit very compact and vigorous. The flowers of this beautiful 
variety are of fine shape and substance, aud borne on large globular trusses on stout footstalks, 
well above the foliage, very intense scarlet, with a pretty violet shade on the upper petals ; is a 
very profuso blooming variety, the colour of tho flowers harmonising beautifully with its fine gold 
and bronze foliage. 1 guinea. 
OPINIONS OP THE PRESS RESPECTING WILLS’ PELARGONIUMS. 
Journal of Horticulture , May 23rcl, 1867, p. 357. 
“ Mr. Bun. had also a very lino collection of sorts raised by Mr. Wills, having variously coloured 
zones. Of these Beauty of Jtibblesdale was very conspicuous ; it has very large leaves, with a showy 
broad red and bronze Vandyke zone on a yellow ground ; this fine variety received a First Class 
Certificate, as did Her Majesty. Wc also noticed Beauty of Calderdale, a bold-leaved variety of 
the same class, and of tricolors, Lizzie , Florence, and Unique." 
Gardeners' Chronicle, May 25tli, 1867, p. 548. 
“ Mr. Wills, gardener at Huntroydo Park, Burnley, had a very fine collection of new sorts, 
having for the most part bold leaves broadly zoned with reddish brown. Of theso, Beauty of Bib- 
Wesdale was very conspicuous ; it has large foliage, with a showy Vandyke reddish bronze zone on a 
yellow ground ; this received a First Class Certificate, as did also Her Majesty, a vigorous-growing 
kind, of a yellowish brown, with a very broad, even, deep chestnut zone.” For this splendid col- 
lection Mr. Wills received a special commemorative medal on tho 20th, awarded on the occasion 
of Her Majesty’s visit to the Royal Horticultural Society's Gardens. 
Gardeners' Magazine, June 15th, 1867, p. 253. 
" We must make an agreeable exception in favour of an exhibitor, who put all other contributors 
in the variegated-leaved classes into the shade by his splendid group of plants. Mr. Wills, gardener 
to Capt. Starkie, Huntroyde, for ton plants, presented a splendid group, all seedlings of his own, 
we believe, and mostly a race of which Kuna is the accepted type. We must go through this lot 
in detail, for they are destined to become famous in a very short time hence ; in fact, only need to 
be seen by cultivators of these plants, to be entered at onco in their lists of tho best varieties 
known-. Her Majesty, the most remarkable of all tho brown zoned kinds, leaf medium size, round 
and nearly flat, very small yellowish green disc, and very bold broad zono, of reddish ciunamon 
colour, the habit compact, a glorious and novel display of colour. Beauty of Calderdale, in the 
samo stylo, but ono shade darker in colour, the zone being nearly a pure chestnut. Model , large 
green disc, with scolloped chestnut zone. Beauty of Ribblcsdalc, leaf sulphur green or lemon yellow, 
narrow red cinnamon zone, in the younger leaves shading towards pine red ; very distinct and 
