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in fact, as it is to rear a plantation of young Vines on a border in which old 
Vines are left growing for the sake of a year’s fruit, and which are sure to take 
possession of the new soil provided for the young Vines. The same principle 
runs through the whole of what I have advanced on the subject, and, therefore, 
I consider it a matter worthy of the attention of planters. 
John Cox. 
REPORT ON THE BEDDING PELARGONIUMS GROWN AT 
CHISWICK, 1864. 
By Thomas Moore, F.L.S., Secretary to the Floral Committee. 
( Concluded from'page 228 ) 
The most approved sorts are indicated throughout by an asterisk (*), and 
the next grade by an obelisk (f). 
SERIES V.—SILVER VARIEGATED VARIETIES. 
1. LEAYES ZONATE AND MAEGINATE. 
(a) Margins white. 
Argus * (G. Smith).—Moderately vigorous habit; leaves with whitish edge 
and indistinct pink zone ; flowers very bright light scarlet, well formed and in 
good trusses 
Burning Bush (Hally).—Dwarf habit; leaves with whitish edge and pink 
zone ; flowers light scarlet. 
Countess of Warwick (Kinghorn).—Vigorous free habit; leaves whitish 
at the edge and with a dark red zone ; flowers abundant, scarlet. 
Elegans (E. G. Henderson & Son).—Moderately vigorous habit; leaves 
white-edged and faintly pink-zoned : flowers cerise. 
Fontainbleau * (E. G. Henderson Sc Son, Scott).—Dwarf habit; leaves 
with a whitish margin and a faint pink zone ; flowers cerise. 
Julia\ (Turner).—Vigorous habit; leaves with very slight pink zone and 
whitish margin; flowers scarlet, in good trusses. 
Little Beauty (E. G. Henderson h Son).—Dwarf habit; leaves very white 
at the edge, with a deep red zone ; flowers scarlet. 
Picturatum* (Turner).—Dwarfish habit; leaves flat, with whitish edge and 
well-marked pink zone ; flowers light scarlet. 
Rainbow (Scott).—Moderately vigorous ; leaves with pink zone and whitish 
edge ; flowers light scarlet. 
St. Clair * (Turner).—Free and moderately vigorous habit; leaves cupped, 
wdiitish at the edge, and having a dull zone; flowers rather narrow-petaled, in 
fine trusses, pale cerise pink. Also grown as Victoria. 
Silver Chain f (Scott, E. G. Henderson).—Compact dwarf habit; leaves 
with a broad whitish edge, flat, with indications of being zonate; flowers bright 
rosy cerise, large and well formed, darker than those of Venus, which it very 
closely resembles ; the foliage however is better. 
The Countess (E. G. Henderson & Son).—Vigorous and coarse inhabit; 
leaves with whitish edge and dark zone; flowers scarlet. 
2. EE A YES MABGINATE, NOT ZONATE. 
(a) Margins white. 
Alma (Scott, Turner).—Moderately vigorous habit; leaves with abroad 
whitish edge, flowers deep scarlet. Of free healthy growth. 
Bijou * (Low r & Co., Turner).—Moderately vigorous ; leaves flat, with a 
