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THE FLOEAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
geraniums. They soon became famous for their fine habit of growth 
and large circular flowers. Amongst them Haidee and Diana were 
conspicuous for their strong tone of blue, and all were notable for 
depth and decisiveness of colour and stoutness of petal. Another 
set is now on offer by Mr. John Copelin, of Tyssen Street Nurseries, 
"West Hackney, and there can be no doubt these will mark a dis- 
tinct epoch in the ^history of the zonal geranium. This set com- 
prises seven varieties. Uienzi is a scarlet flower of the shape and size 
of a perfect show pansy. Lord Macaulay is plum-coloured crimson. 
liichard Occur de Lion is deep scarlet, and may be best described as 
a great advance on Leonidas. Jessica is of the most perfect form, 
the colour a deep maroon crimson. Bose of Allandale is an improve- 
ment on Beaute du Suresne, with the same delicious colour, and 
with broader petals. Zenolia is brilliant cherry crimson, and 
flowers so freely that even now, when frost and fog have made an 
end of the glories of the garden, the stock of this plant in the 
nursery presents a brilliant sheet of colour, although the houses in 
which the geraniums are grown are only kept sufficiently warm to 
exclude frost safely. Nelson is a rich blue-tinted magenta flower, 
most delicious in colour in the spring and autumn. Tor winter 
flowers we have no such zonals as these, for not only are they of the 
highest quality as florists’ flowers, but their lovely shades of blue 
come out with better effect in the dead season of the year than at 
any other time. 
While enjoying the splendid display of the selected set in Cope- 
lin’s nursery, we made note of a curious and beautiful seedling, 
named Imotjen. As this is not for sale at present, those who would 
wish to possess it must be content to wait. It is of dwarf growth, 
and produces flowers of the most perfect form, the colour of which 
is a soft blue-tinted rose. It will, we have no doubt, prove even- 
tually the finest of all known bedding plants, but it flowers so freely 
that to propagate it is slow work, and hence it cannot at present be 
offered for sale. We must confess our plate does not do it justice. 
Mr. Slocombe exercised his best skill in the drawing, and engraver 
and printer have spared no pains, and yet the true colour of the 
flower is not represented. No uncommon case this, and there is no 
help for it. We must beg our readers to accept the will for the 
deed, and James Thomson shall apologize for us by asking, “ Who 
can paint like nature ?” Probably in the course of the coming 
spring Imogen will be presented to the Ploral Committee, and then 
— the committee shall see what they shall see. 
Hr. Denny’s home garden is so gay in winter with hundreds of 
geraniums in gorgeous bloom, that we have sought his aid in the 
interest of our readers, many of whom, we are sure, would be glad 
to laugh at the fog and the frost and the rain and the snow, if only 
they could secure a buxom bouquet of fiery flowers to sustain their 
merriment. S. H. 
