Plate 32. 
NEW EANCY PELARGONIUMS. 
Pelargonium fhybridumj. 
The class of Fancy Pelargoniums, as the small-growing bright- 
flowered sorts like those represented in our Plate are called, has 
already reached so high a degree of development, that varieties 
of distinctly superior qualities, such as those we have figured, 
are hut occasionally met with, the range of variation being ap¬ 
parently somewhat limited. 
The variety which occupies the upper part of Mr. Fitch’s 
group has been called Arabella Goddard. This is considered to 
be a great improvement on the varieties resembling that known 
as Celestial, being of a purer rose-colour, with stouter and more 
perfect petals, and altogether better adapted to form a show 
flower. The variety was raised by Mr. Turner, of Slough, and 
has been awarded a first class certificate by the Horticultural 
Society’s Floral Committee. It has throughout the season, and 
also last year when it first bloomed, proved to be a beautiful 
variety, of vigorous yet compact and free-blooming habit. The 
flowers are of full average size, remarkably well formed, being 
circular, and smooth both on the edge and surface ; they are 
also finely coloured, bright-lake with a narrow edge of white, 
and a white centre. Its smoothness and constancy are highly 
commendable features. 
Plate 32.— Pelargonium (hybridum) :— 
Eig. 1. Arabella Goddard : flowers medium-sized, of excellent form 
and substance; pure bright rosy-lake, the centre and a narrow margin 
white. 
Eig. 2. King oe Roses : flowers larger, intense rose-colour, slightly 
margined with light lilac. 
Eig. 3. Negress : flowers dark-coloured, maroon, the lower petals blotched 
and pencilled with a lighter maroon. 
