POPULAR GARDEN PLANTS. 
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places they grow freely, the colour of the 
blossoms becoming more intense, and the 
plants remaining a longer time in flower. 
They display their beauty either in the fronts 
of large shrubberies and plantations or on the 
sides of a carriage-approach to a mansion, and 
when distant effect is required, no plant so 
admirably answers that end, as their size and 
the brilliancy of their colours render them 
visible at a greater distance than any other 
flowers. They are also most imposing in large 
beds. Narcissus may be planted with good 
effect amongst them to give early flowers in 
spring, and Gladiolus also do well amongst 
Fig. 589.—Tree Pceony. 
them to give bloom in the late summer months; 
as centre plants in small beds they make grand 
objects also. They are invaluable for cut- 
bloom, and if gathered in a young state, when 
only a few petals show, they keep for a week 
in water. The plants are perfectly hardy, and 
it is difficult to kill them; they withstand any 
amount of cold or heat, and no vermin, insect, 
slug, blight, or mildew attacks them; they 
grow in any soil, but they well repay for 
deep trenching of the land and manuring 
highly, and watering in dry weather. Mr. 
William Kelway, about twenty-five years 
since, got together all the known species, and 
hybridized them with great success, raising 
scores of new kinds, both double- and single- 
flowered, some of them being scented with 
Violet or Rose-like perfumes. The leaves are 
useful in autumn for decoration. The young 
shoots in spring are coloured rich reddish- 
brown, changing as they mature to bright green, 
again assuming rose-red or purple-brown tints 
in autumn. 
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The best double varieties of the herbaceous 
section are:— 
Admiral Dewey, Cyclops, Dr. Bonavia, Duchess of 
Somerset, Duke of Devonshire, Ella Christine Kelway, 
Emperor of Russia, Galtee More, Geraldine, Glory of 
Somerset, Lady Bramwell, Lady Carrington, Langport 
Queen, Limosel, Lord Beresford, Maria Kelway, Mrs. 
Chamberlain, Mrs. Gwyn Lewis, Peter the Great, Prince 
Henry of Battenberg, Prince of Wales, Waterloo. 
The best single varieties are 
Alton Locke, Calliphon, Cherry Ripe, Countess of 
Warwick, Diadem, Dorothy, Duchess of Sutherland, 
Emily, Hesperus, Lady Wimborne, Meteor, Millais, Mrs. 
J. Gundry, Queen of May, Sirdar, Stanley, The Czar, 
Tinted Venus, Viscount Cross. 
[W. H. K.] 
Pelargoniums. —The origin of the garden 
races of Pelargoniums (including what are 
popularly known as Geraniums) appears to be 
largely due to accident rather than design. 
The four sections, viz. Show, Fancy, Zonal, 
and Ivy-leaved, each containing large numbers 
of varieties, are the result of cultivation and 
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