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THE EL0RIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
scarlets, the bedder-out will have acquired, amongst Pelargoniums, besides the 
pinks, roses, salmons, and whites he already possessed, a variety of tints which 
will be invaluable to him—passing off in one direction towards orange and 
yellow, and in the other towards purple-rose or magenta. These novelties, 
many of them, combine the prolific bloom of the Nosegay race with the 
better-shaped blossoms of the more ordinary kinds; and it is to this race of 
what may be called semi-Nosegays that our present subject belongs. 
Beaton’s Indian Yellow Pelargonium is a variety of free growth, and 
of dwarfish habit. It has, as will be seen, zonate leaves, and its flower-trusses 
are well furnished; the latter were, indeed, rather thin at the time of its first 
appearance in public, but, as the more natural season of bloom came round, 
this meagreness was altogether lost, and the plants bore well-furnished trusses 
as much as 4 inches across, and containing fifty or more of the large well- 
formed blossoms. The colour has a strongly-marked shade of Indian yellow, 
which is at once apparent when the plant is brought into contiguity with either 
a pure scarlet or one of the magenta-tinted race. The colour may be described 
as an orange scarlet, with a suffusion of golden yellow, or a wash of the same 
colour overlaid. The variety, indeed, is a most unexpected and valuable 
addition to the materials for the parterre, all the more welcome as being the 
first of this colour which will be placed within reach of the flower-gardener. 
We may just mention, here, that from the same quarter—namely, Mr. 
W. Paul’s nursery, at Waltham Cross—another yellowish-tinted variety will 
be sent out. This latter is called Orange Nosegay , and is a green-leaved free- 
growing sort, bearing the enormous trusses of flowers characteristic of the 
Nosegay race, and with individual blossoms quite in the long-petaled Nosegay 
style. In this the yellow tint is also strongly marked. Another admirable 
variety, one of the semi-Nosegay race, with bright purple rose flowers in 
enormous bunches, is a grand acquisition ; this has been called Amy Hogg. 
A third, named Glowworm , also a semi-Nosegay, has the upper part of its 
flowers scarlet, the lower part magenta, the flower-trusses being thus remark¬ 
able for the glow of colour they present as the scarlet gradually merges into 
the rose. A fourth choice semi-Nosegay novelty, named Rebecca , has the 
upper parts orange scarlet, and the lower crimson, with a strong flush of 
magenta especially apparent towards the centre. All these, which come from 
Beaton’s stock, will be indispensable to those who, in the matter of flower 
gardening, wish to keep pace with the times. M. 
CHRONICLES OF A TOWN GARDEN.—No. XII. 
Hail to the “ new-born” flowers as well as to the “ new-born” year. At 
my Christmas fireside there will be something more than the “ red-berried 
Holly t( j n (.jj e w i n t r y b] as t 
Recalls the hue of spring.” 
I have, close by me, on this dreary December day, beautiful little Scillas, that 
“ stand dressed in living green” and blue, and near them, in bridal array, 
sweet little Roman Hyacinths just expanding. They strikingly resemble a 
white form of the common “Blue Bell;” and so early in blooming are they, 
that I have seen them in Covent Garden Market for two months past. A right 
valuable yet unpretending little flower, it is always, and especially just now, 
when out of doors little else but Holly-berries, and here and there a weather¬ 
beaten Christmas Rose, leave a trace of the recent exodus of the great floral 
multitude that went forth down through the Red Sea of their wintry slumber, 
