Plate 45. 
VARIETIES OP PELARGONIUM. 
Pelargonium (JiybridumJ . 
The varieties of Pelargonium now figured include some fur¬ 
ther examples of the more meritorious of those brought for¬ 
ward at the Metropolitan exhibitions and floral meetings during 
the last blooming season, when our drawings were made. 
That which bears the name of Mulberry , was raised by the 
late lamented E. Beck, Esq., to whose courtesy we owe the op¬ 
portunity of figuring it, and of whom it will now stand in our 
pages as a memorial flower. To our taste, this is one of the 
most charming varieties which the past season produced; but it 
was not shewn until the plant had become nearly exhausted, 
and therefore less effectively than might have been the case. 
The flowers are of full size, well-formed, firm, smooth, and of 
fine satiny texture, rose-colour pleasingly suffused with blue, 
and marked on the lower petals with small crimson spots, 
which run out into branching lines and patches of the same 
colour near the margin. The upper petals are of a rich dark 
satiny maroon-colour, with a very narrow even border or belt 
of bright rose-crimson. The centre of the flower is white. It 
is a very showy and attractive plant. 
We have already figured (Plate 21) a free-blooming and very 
ornamental white variety, called Modesty, also one of Mr. Beck’s 
flowers. The wdiite variety now represented, called Queen of 
JPlcite 45 .— Pelargonium (hybridum) :— 
Pig. 1 . Mulberry : upper petals maroon, edged with rose-crimson, lower 
ones rose with a bluish tint, veined and spotted with crimson; centre 
wdiite. 
Pig. 2. Queen of England : flovrers white, the upper petals marked 
with a small spot of purplish-rose colour. 
Pig. 3. Mrs. Ponsonby Moore : flowers small, deep bright rose-crimson, 
with large black spot on the upper petals, and smaller one on the lower, 
those of the latter passing into veins at the base. 
