Plate 205 . 
FANCY PELARGONIUMS, ANNE PAGE AND 
EDGAR TURNER. 
It is now nearly two years since we figured any flowers of 
this section, not because there has been any diminution of in¬ 
terest in them, but the perfection to which they have, by care¬ 
ful hybridizing, been brought, is so great, that improvement is 
indeed most difficult The flowers which we now figure seem, 
however, to present to us this improvement: one has been 
awarded a certificate by the Floral Committee of the Royal 
Horticultural Society, and the other, from its colouring, seems 
to us worthy of a place in our collections. 
The position which Mr. Turner (the raiser of these flowers) 
has so long occupied, both as a grower and an exhibitor, has 
been somewhat interfered with this season, he having been 
absent from many of the metropolitan shows, and only taken 
second prizes in others. The cause of this affords a useful 
lesson, and is an illustration of the need of attending to the 
old adage, “ Let well alone/’ In order to give greater vigour 
to his plants, and make them surpass themselves, he used, this 
season, some of the chemical manures, in solution. The result 
of this was to give an immense impetus to the growth of his 
plants, and nothing could promise better than they did in the 
early part of the month of May; but it will be remembered 
that during that month we had some very hot weather. The 
effect of this on his plants, so treated, was to hurry them into 
bloom, and to burn and wither the foliage, so that by the time 
the exhibitions were taking place, his plants had either gone 
out of bloom or were in a condition unfit for showing. Had 
the cooler weather lasted a little longer, as might, under ordi¬ 
nary circumstances, have been supposed, they would have been 
