TUE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
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BEDDING PELARGONIUMS, WITH ORNAIMENTAL 
LEAVES. 
(Selected from the Royal Horticultural Society’s Trial at Chiswick ) 
jjHE trial of bedding geraniums in the garden of the Royal 
Horticultural Society last summer was, as we have 
already stated, very extensive, and it included the prin- 
cipal varieties in the several sections. We now oiler a 
few remarks on the' varieties grown for their orna- 
mental leaves, comprising the variegated-leaved and the bronze, silver, 
and golden zonals. 
[Silvery- VAU iEGATED.] — Albion's Cliffs. — White- variegated; 
strong grower ; first-rate for large beds. 
Brilliant Superb . — An improved Brilliant, with better defined 
variegation. 
Flower of Spring. — Cream-coloured variegation ; free-flowering 
and compact ; a first-rate bedder. 
Miss Kingsbury . — Perhaps the best white-variegated variety 
grown. 
Mrs. Fennox. — One of the best white-variegated varieties grown. 
Princess Alexandra. — White-edged foliage ; dwarf and compact. 
Queen of Queens. — Large cream-edged foliage ; very free and 
first-class. 
Silver Chain. — Cream-margined foliage ; free and compact habit ; 
first-rate. 
Snoivdrop. — Compact cream-coloured variegation ; good and 
distinct. 
Variegated Stella. — A sport from the Nosegay Stella, with flowers 
of the same colour, and with similar-shaped foliage, but variegated ; 
slow-growing, but pretty. 
TValtham Bride. — White flowers, with cream-edged foliage ; a 
very slow grower, dwarf, and a moderately free flowerer. 
White Lady. — White flowers and white-edged foliage ; a mode- 
rate grower ; distinct and good of its class. 
[Golden-variegated.] — Crystal Palace Oem. — Eoliage yellow, 
with green blotch near the base ; a free compact grower ; one of the 
best bedders. 
Golden Chain. — An old favourite ; foliage clear green, with broad 
margin of golden yellow ; very bright ; a slow grower, but still 
unsurpassed in its way. 
Golden Fleece. — Foliage large, very bright yellow, with small 
blotch of green on the lower part ; a very dwarf and compact 
grower. 
[Yellow Self-coloured.] — Creed's Seedling. — Foliage bright 
greenish yellow ; free and compact. 
Jason. — Foliage bright soft yellow; dwarf, compact, and first-rate. 
Bobert Fish. — Exceedingly dwarf habit, foliage small and of a 
bright yellow colour ; first-rate for edgings. 
[Silver Zonals.] — Glen-Eyre Beauty. — Moderate grower, free 
and good ; one o.f the very best ; zone very bright. 
June. 
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