Plate 101. 
GERANIUM MRS. POLLOCK. 
Pelargonium zonale , var. 
While the skill and diligence of hybridizers have been re¬ 
warded in the section of show Pelargoniums with such flowers 
as we figured in our last number, another division of the same 
family, the zonate, or horse-shoe-leaved ones, has produced a 
number of varieties, which are year by year becoming more 
striking in the markings of their foliage. One of the more 
recent examples of these Mr. Andrews has faithfully portrayed 
in our plate. 
We had the other day an opportunity of examining a large 
number of plants of three varieties in this section, at Messrs. 
E. G. Henderson and Son’s, Wellington Road Nursery, viz. Mrs. 
PollocJc , Sunset , and Lucy Grieve (the latter not being as yet 
sent out), and we are inclined to think that of the two former, 
Mrs. Pollock will be found to be the most generally useful ; 
its habit is more robust than Sunset, and it appears to be of a 
different race; and in this opinion we were strengthened by 
that of our friend Mr. Andrew Henderson : the lobes of the 
leaves are not so deeply cut, there is moreover a difference 
in the shade of green, and the whole surface of the foliage is 
hairy, while in Sunset it is smooth or nearly so; there is also 
a difference in the flower, those of Mrs. Pollock being of a 
much deeper scarlet. Lucy Grieve seems to excel, in brilliancy 
of marking, either of the varieties named; probably during the 
present season an opportunity will be afforded the floral world 
of judging both of its real and comparative merits. Nor are 
these the only novelties that are possessed by the enterprising 
firm; we saw, amongst a number of seedlings, some golden¬ 
leaved ones from which the green had entirely vanished, and a 
broad dark zone was distinctly marked. 
