14 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
II. Bepgrt on the Bedding Varieties of Zonal Pelargoniums 
Grown at Chiswick by the Ploral Committee of the Boyal 
Horticultural Society, 1876. 
The collection grown this season was chiefly composed of the older 
and approved varieties, it having been determined by the Com¬ 
mittee to prove all the new sorts in pots the first season, and to 
bed them oi;t the following if worthy of retention, excepting the 
variegated section and some few that were recommended solely as 
bedding varieties. This arrangement enables the Committee to 
discard many worthless and synonymous varieties the first season, 
and to secure a requisite number of plants of good quality for 
planting out, a difficulty having always been experienced in secur¬ 
ing the newer sorts sufficiently early in the season, or of sufficient 
vigour, to give them a fair trial the first season. 
The season was not a favourable one for the flowering varieties ; 
but the foliaged or variegated section, on the contrary, grew most 
satisfactorily. 
The following is a list of the donors Bull, W., Chelsea ; 
Bell and Thorpe, Stratford-on-Avon ; Carter & Co., High Holborn, 
W.C. ; Clark, J., Cothelstone House, near Tantum, Somerset; 
Creed, J. J., Whittington House, Chesterfield; Cocker & Son, J., 
Sunnypark Nurseries, Aberdeen; Cannell, H., Swanley Junction, 
Kent; Chater, J. J., Gonville Nurseries, Cambridge; Denny, Dr., 
Stoke Newington; Dickson & Co., Edinburgh; Davis, S. The 
Cemetery, Maidstone, Kent ; Dean, B., Ealing; Dodds, W., 
Bishopston, Bristol; Eraser, John, Lea Bridge Nurseries; Gara- 
way & Co., J., Bristol; George, J., Putney Heath ; Henderson & 
Son, E. G., Wellington Nursery, N.W.; Hodgson, J.,-Thomas 
Street, Woolwich ; King, J., Allanbury Park, Binfield, Berks ; 
Kinghorn, E. B., Sheen Nursery, Bichmond; Kneller, N., Mal- 
shanger Park, Basingstoke; Laing, John, Stanstead Park Nur¬ 
series ; Little, H., Cambridge Villa, Twickenham ; Lee, J. & C., 
Hammersmith; Methven & Sons, Thomas, Edinburgh ; Miles, E., 
Bingham Bectory, Notts; Meus, —, Chiswick House; Osborn & Son, 
Eulham ; Pearson, J. B., Chilwell, Notts ; Paul & Son, W., Wal¬ 
tham Cross ; Porter, —, Sion Lodge, Isleworth; Plestir, W., Elsenham 
Hall Gardens, Bishop Storford ; Smith, G., Hedge Lane, Edmonton ; 
Smith, E. and A., Dulwich; Tipping, E. P., Sheendale Villas, 
Bichmond; Turner, C., Boyal Nurseries, Slough ; Veitch & Sons, 
