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all have a weakness for abundance of flower, and rich masses of colour, 
two conditions which the latter furnish in the largest degree. I wish, there¬ 
fore, to say a word in favour of my older friends by commending to all 
growers of this beautiful class of plants Mr. G. Smith’s Regalia, a 
variety that I have grown as a pot plant this year, and which I must 
pronounce to be the most gorgeous and free-blooming of all the Zonal 
section I have ever seen. The individual pips are as large and somewhat 
resemble those of Roi d’ltalie, but possessing a much brighter rosy tint; 
the habit of the plant is sliort-jointed, and an abundance of trusses of large 
size are thrown up. I have now a plant in full bloom not more than 14 inches 
across at the top, and it has eighteen fully expanded trusses and twelve 
others just about to open. Regalia has only to be grown to become one of. 
the most popular of our exhibition Zonal Pelargoniums. A. D. 
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TROPZEOLUM POLYPHYLLUM. 
HE reference at p. 195, to the elegant little Tropaeolum speciosum, 
has reminded me of another species as rarely met with, and as well 
deserving cultivation. I allude to the T. polyphyllum, introduced 
from Chili, according to the catalogues, as long ago as 1828. Unlike 
the T. speciosum, it has a tuberous root, but is equally hardy, and 
like it, luxuriates only in the open border. The partial disappearance of 
both species from our gardens is probably owing to the attempt to cultivate 
them in pots, for which they are ill-adapted. 
Planted in soil of a loamy character, the T. polyphyllum throws up 
in early summer, numerous shoots clothed with distinct-looking digitate- 
glaucous foliage, and terminated by long racemes of showy deep yellow 
flowers, of medium size. After blooming, the stems quickly disappear in 
time to allow of the space being covered with transplanted Asters, and other 
autumn-flowering annuals. 
Ipswich. W. Thompson. 
SPRING GARDENING. 
r^|HE taste for Spring Gardening is rapidly spreading. The stone has 
fjpj) been cast upon smooth water, circle succeeds circle, and will, doubt- 
less, continue to do so until the movement is felt on every side, at 
egT wide distances from the central motive power. Cliveden, Belvoir, 
and Hvde Park have demonstrated to those who would see, and read, 
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and learn, the perfect practicability of realising a beautiful garden ablaze 
with flowers of every hue in the cheerless months of March and April. 
The managers of these gardens are rightfully entitled to be considered 
the pioneers of spring gardening ; by them the ground has been cleared: 
by them the plain path indicated: by others recognised and entered on. 
