Plate 21. 
VARIETIES OE PELARGONIUM. 
Pelargonium f hjbridnm ). 
The excellent varieties of Pelargonium represented in the 
accompanying Plate, are among the best of those which have 
appeared during the past blooming season. They are all seed¬ 
lings of great merit, and may be regarded as acquisitions by 
those who seek for the choicer novelties of this showy flower, 
produced from year to year by the skilful and well-directed 
efforts of a few leading growers. 
There is probably no more charming variety yet produced 
than Perdita , the central figure of our group. It was raised 
by Edmund Foster, Esq., of Clewer Manor, near Windsor, and 
has been exhibited during the past summer by Mr. Turner, of 
Slough. At one of the meetings of the Horticultural Society’s 
Floral Committee, at which it was produced in great beauty, a 
first-class certificate was awarded to it. As shown on that oc¬ 
casion, it was a compact-growing, free-blooming variety, of vi¬ 
gorous habit, its blossoms of large size, of excellent form and 
substance, and so exceedingly richly coloured that our repre¬ 
sentation falls short of the original, as must all pictures of 
flowers having glowing colours like these. The upper petals 
are nearly covered by a dense satiny blotch of maroon, outside 
of which appears a narrow even belt or margin of rosy-crimson. 
The base of the lower petals is pure white, forming a broad 
Plate 21. —Pelargonium (hybridum) :— 
Eig. 1. Perdita: upper petals maroon, edged with rose-crimson, lower 
ones rose suffused and mottled with crimson, and with a central spot of 
the same colour ; centre white. 
Pig. 2. Modesty : flowers white, the upper petals marked with a small 
dense blotch of maroon. 
Pig. 3. Garibaldi: flowers large; upper petals maroon edged with rose, 
lower ones rose-pink dashed with crimson ; centre white. 
