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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
resume, by sowing, the form, size and taste of the little wild Melons of India, 
or our Cauliflowers or Cabbages revert to any of the wild kinds so different in 
habit and quality which grow on the cliffs of the ocean and Mediterranean. 
Whatever, then, the partisans of immutability may say, species in the vege¬ 
table kingdom are endowed with great flexibility ; and it is not a vain hypothesis 
which refers to the same specific type races and varieties, sometimes very 
different in appearance, but having the same morphologic organisation and 
capable of breeding with each other by crossing as members oi* the same family. 
I allow that there will always be doubtful cases, even after the proof of fertile 
crossing in the whole series of possible generations ; but this is no reason for 
separating, as so many primordially distinct entities, what so many observed 
facts and so many analogies prove to be able to proceed, by way of evolution, 
from a single primary specific type. If we transport any one of our race of 
Pear trees into all the regions of the globe whereon it is able to exist, it will 
tend to place itself in harmony with the media, and we may be sure that after 
some generations it will have given rise to new and numerous varieties. This 
fact, which is realised in the sight of man in all the economical plants which are 
spread through the globe, affords the key to those polymorphous species, so 
embarrassing to the botanist, and which have become so only because nature 
has itself spread them over immense extents of country. 
REPORT ON THE BEDDING PELARGONIUMS GROWN AT 
CHISWICK, 1864. 
By Thomas Moore, P.L.S., Secretary to the Floral Committee. 
( Continued from page 175.) 
The most approved sorts are indicated throughout by an asterisk (*), and 
the next grade by an obelisk (f). 
SERIES II.—ZONATE VARIETIES. 
2. FLOWERS CERISE, ROSY SCARLET, OR ROSE. 
Alice (E. G. Henderson & Son).—Vigorous spreading habit; dark-zoned 
leaves; flowers cerise scarlet. 
Apollo (Hally).—Vigorous habit; leaves zonate ; flowers cerise. Of no 
use. 
Aspasia f (Bull).—Moderately vigorous habit; dark-zoned leaves; deep 
rosy scarlet flowers. The marks indicate its value as a pot plant. 
Beauty f (Williams).—Vigorous spreading habit ; leaves with a broad 
dull zone; flowers large, rosy scarlet, of good form, and in fine trusses. 
Bonnie Dundee f (Bull).—Moderately vigorous and compact habit; leaves 
with a dark well defined zone; flowers of good form, in compact trusses, of a 
cerise colour. It is a very pretty free-blooming pot plant, fully deserving on 
this account an equal number of marks with those given for its bedding qualities. 
Bridesmaid (E. G. Henderson k Son).—Moderately vigorous; dark-zoned 
leaves; flowers cerise, with paler edges. 
Caroline (Bull).—Moderately vigorous; leaves with a broad dark zone; 
flowers rosy scarlet, in large trusses. 
Cecilia f (Bull).—Moderately vigorous habit; dark-zoned leaves; rosy 
scarlet flowers. Inferior to Roi d’ltalie; but a free showy variety as a pot 
plant, for which it was approved. 
