Plate 265. 
ZONALE GERANIUM, WILTSHIRE LASS. 
Nothing more is needed to show the great popularity of this 
tribe of plants than the production of the vast number of seed¬ 
ling flowers, of various degrees of merit, which are being con¬ 
tinually raised and brought into public notice. During the 
present season, Mr. Bull, of Chelsea, Messrs. F. and H. Smith, 
of Dulwich, Mr. George Smith, of Hornsey, Mr. Hally, of 
Blackheath, and other growers, have sent out a large number; 
in fact, the lists are now being so much augmented, that they 
will, ere long, require considerable weeding out. We are con¬ 
vinced that no more desirable acquisition has been made than 
Wiltshire Lass , which we now figure. 
The pink-coloured flowers have always been favourites,— 
Christina , Eve, Charmer , Helen Lindsay , and others being much 
esteemed. We have seen another excellent addition to this 
class in Serena , which bids fair to be an excellent flower; to 
this class Wiltshire Lass belongs, and has been greatly admired 
by all who saw it. It was exhibited by Mr. Keynes, of Salis¬ 
bury, at one of the meetings of the Floral Committee of the 
Royal Horticultural Society, where we saAv it; it is thus de¬ 
scribed in the Transactions of the Society:—“One of the finest 
of the pink-flowered bedding varieties yet seen, remarkable not 
so much for the size of flower as for the size and completeness 
of truss; the leaves were marked with a pale zone, the flowers 
were rosy-pink, the base of the upper petals white, and the 
trusses were remarkably large and dense, having the valuable 
property of retaining their blossoms for a long time in the 
truss. It will be a most valuable decorative variety. First 
certificate.” It has also received a first-class certificate from 
the Royal Botanic Society. 
