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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ March, 
true characters, if the season is at all adverse. Hence the list of approved 
sorts tested at Chiswick in 1867, is much more limited than usual, not, 
probably, so much because the new sorts are really inferior to those of 
former years, as that they have not been enabled to develope their real 
merits. We subjoin a list of those which the Floral Committee selected from 
a very large collection, to receive first-class certificates :— 
Madame Martha Vincent , a good free-blooming white, the petals being slightly tinted 
blush, and the flowers in good trusses. 
Purity, free, and bearing good trusses; the flowers pure white. This and the foregoing 
were the two best of the many white-flowered sorts in the Chiswick collection, the first 
haying slightly the advantage in freeness and size of truss, and the latter in pureness of 
colour. 
Madame Werle, free-blooming, and of fine shape, white, with a delicately-tinted rosy 
pink eye ; the leaf zonate. 
Crystal Palace Gem, a large and very showy red flower with small white eye, some¬ 
thing in the way of Eoi dTtali'e, and with dark zoned leaves. 
Rebecca, a semi-Nosegay, with zoned leaves, and fine trusses of large rosy red flowers, 
having the glowing upper petals, so prevalent amongst the varieties of Beaton’s race. 
Violet Hill Nosegay , which had formerly been voted a second-class certificate, was 
adjudged worthy a first; it is remarkably dwarf and compact, with a full head of salmon-red 
flowers, and has lobed leaves; if a continuous bloomer, it will make a pretty edging variety, 
Fairy Queen, a free and useful sort, with bright rosy crimson flowers, and lobed leaves. 
Dr. Hogg, very showy, a semi-Nosegay, with large broad petals of a rosy crimson hue, 
the lower petals, especially in some stages, being more strongly suffused with rose. 
Lady Constance Grosvenor, a very effective flower, and probably the best of the present 
season; the leaves are of a peculiarly lively green, and elegantly marked with a dark zone, 
and the flowers (of the Nosegay class) are of a very bright scarlet, and produced in large 
trusses ; it is a decided beat upon Cybister. 
Sambo, of dwarf compact habit, with faintly zoned leaves; the flowers are rather small, 
but of a very rich crimson scarlet. 
Warrior, a strong-growing sort, with plain green leaves, and large trusses of finely 
shaped bright scarlet flowers. 
Gloire de Nancy, a strong-growing sort, with large plain green leaves, and rosy-tinted 
flowers ; the best of the double-flowered varieties yet submitted to trial. 
Princess Alexandra, a silver variegated sort, of compact growth, with large flat leaves, 
broadly edged with pure white. 
Castlemilk, a white-edged variety, of rather erect free growth, clear and effective in 
colour, but the leaves are somewhat inclined to cup. 
Snowdrop, the counterpart of Princess Alexandra as to compactness and flatness of leaf, 
but with the broad margin of a creamy white tint. 
Second-class certificates were given to the following varieties :— 
Albion's Cliffs, a silver-edged variety, much in the way of Castlemilk, but more vigorous 
in growth, and somewhat less white in appearance ; a good useful sort, nevertheless. 
Vulcan, a free-growing sort, with green lobed leaves, and semi-Nosegay flowers, of a 
clear scarlet. 
Oberon, with yellowish green leaves, marked by a dull zone, and large scarlet semi- 
Nosegay flowers ; it is bright in colour, but thin. 
We may add, that amongst the most freely bloomed and effective Pelar¬ 
goniums we met with last season, were some of Mr. W. Paul’s varieties, 
already sent out, as growing in his nursery at Waltham Cross. This result 
seemed to be attributable to the constitutional power of Beaton’s race of 
Bedding Pelargoniums, which have many of them an inherent vigour, en¬ 
abling them to withstand stormy and uncongenial weather better than some 
other kinds are able to do. Without referring to them at length, we may 
briefly mention that amongst those to which these remarks especially refer, 
