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PELARGONIUM ANDREW HENDERSON. 
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PELARGONIUM ANDREW HENDERSON. 
WITH AN ILLUSTRATION. 
UBMITTED last autumn to tlie Imperial Horticultural Society of 
France, and awarded a first-class certificate for its superlative merit, 
' this very beautiful double-flowered variety of Zonal Pelargonium, 
may well commend itself to our notice. M. Carriere in adverting to 
it, remarks that, had the raiser flowered it soon enough to have been 
to exhibit it at the Great Paris Exhibition, it would have been 
universally admitted to be greatly superior to all other known varieties in 
its class; and we think our figure fully justifies such an encomium. 
One of its chief features of excellence consists in its style of growth, 
the habit and texture of foliage being more like those of the majority of 
the fine single-flowered varieties of English gardens, than of the robust, 
coarse, vigorous double sorts of the P. inquinans section, previously known. 
The colour of the flowers also differs from that of all preceding varieties, 
being a clear deep scarlet lake. The truss is of extraordinary size, larger 
than in any previous double variety, taking a globular outline, and bearing 
from sixty to eighty expanded blossoms, which are well proportioned, very 
double, and regularly imbricated like a Ranunculus, thus again differing 
from ,the sorts already known, which more nearly resemble the Hollyhock 
in the arrangement of their petals. 
This brief description sufficiently indicates the distinguishing features 
as well as the great merit of this novel variety, which we may safely 
recommend for conservatory pot-culture, and also to form select specimens 
for garden decoration. The variety was raised by M. Lemoine, of Nancy, 
and a great portion of the stock has been acquired by Messrs. E. G. 
Henderson & Son, to whom we are indebted for our figure. T. M. 
AUTUMN BROCCOLI. 
*UEN the principal portion of the supply of our summer vegetables 
is over, and where a good and constant supply of vegetables is 
in demand, these are most valuable acquisitions. Foremost in 
the autumn section, I feel inclined to place the Purple and White 
Cape varieties, for they possess a hardier constitution than other 
kinds I have grown. The Purple Cape, indeed, lacks the fine white appear¬ 
ance at table which the white kind possesses, but as regards flavour it 
lacks nothing, being equally as good, if not superior. 
I generally make two sowings of these Cape Broccolis, the first about 
the second week in April; the second the first week in May; but it is 
difficult to give accurate dates, so much depending upon the weather and 
the condition of the soil. The first sowing is generally ready to cut from 
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