1883.] CRIMSON SOUVENIR DE LA MALMAISON CARNATION.-IVY-LEAVED PELARGONIUMS. 
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CRIMSON SOUVENIR DE LA MALMAISON CARNATION. 
[Plate 579.] 
S HE old blush-coloured form of this fine 
tree Carnation, so extensively used for 
greenhouse decoration, is known to 
every one interested in the culture of 
flowers; its free-growing character, the abund¬ 
ance of its fragrant blossoms, and their extra¬ 
ordinary size, are the features by which it has 
won its way to fame. 
The new varieties which we now figure—for 
there are two of them—possess all these good 
qualities, and add thereto the advantage of 
possessing more striking and brilliant colours. 
They were brought under our notice by Messrs. 
Kelway & Son, of Langport, the champion 
British gladiolists, and the samples forwarded 
by them have been very truthfully rendered by 
Mr. Macfarlane in the accompanying plate. 
Fig. 1 is the Crimson Souvenir de la Mal- 
maison, the flowers of which are of very large 
size, regularly and closely filled with fringed 
petals, the colour being a deep crimson-red. 
Fig. 2 is the Red Souvenir de la Malmaison, 
and is, perhaps, a still finer flower than the 
other, being very large and full, and of a 
salmony tinge of light red. Both, it will at 
once be seen, are quite distinct in colour from 
the old familiar variety, from which, in the 
DOUBLE-FLOWERED IVY 
HESE, when well managed, and furnished 
with at least two years’ growth, are 
very useful during the winter season 
where there are heavy demands for cut 
flowers. To obtain a supply, let us begin with 
the young plants. Nice healthy plants should 
be selected in spring, and should get a liberal 
shift, say into eleven-inch pots ; a trellis should 
be put to each pot, and the plants placed 
in a close—not hot—house for a few days ; 
when they have started to grow, if it is not 
mild enough to stand them out of doors, they 
must be moved to any cool place which is 
secure against frost, and here they can stand 
until put out. During the summer they should 
be plunged in the full sun, and will require 
little further attention through the season but 
watering and tying, which should be done 
regularly as the young shoots grow. In all 
probability they will make vigorous growths, 
absence of direct information, possessing as 
they do a similar habit, we conclude they are 
accidental sports which have subsequently been 
propagated and fixed. 
We are informed by Messrs. Kelway that 
the shoots of these two varieties—the grass— 
is not so coarse as in the old flesh-coloured 
sort, but that the plants are much more free in 
growth, and very free in flowering. They 
make fine plants for conservatory decoration, 
forming large bushes, bearing a dozen flower¬ 
ing branches, each producing from eight to ten 
buds or flowers. The flowers represented 
were from plants grown under glass, and 
indeed all the forms of Malmaison are more 
suitable for indoor than for outdoor culture, 
and as they bloom abundantly, and are very 
sweet-scented, they provide just what is re¬ 
quired in a decorative plant, and no doubt 
the newer sorts will be as popular or more so 
than the old one. 
They thrive well if potted in good ordinary 
loam, and may, if desired, be trained up in a 
tree-like form, since the wood becomes hard 
and firm. At Langport they have, we are 
told, been grown in this way from five to six 
feet in height.—T. Moore. 
LEAVED PELARGONIUMS. 
but these should be pinched back until the 
middle of August, when pinching should be 
discontinued. As soon as there is any danger 
from frost, they must be removed to a cool 
house where they can get all the sun possible, 
as they will have made strong growths, and 
require a good deal of ripening. 
If all has gone well, by the beginning of 
winter blossoms should be appearing at all 
the points of the shoots. If the flowers are 
not particularly wanted the plants may remain 
in this cool temperature; they will not open 
so quickly in it, but they will be of a richer 
colour, and will last longer than if produced 
in a higher temperature. If these plants are 
kept through the winter, and are given a rich 
top-dressing, and plunged out of doors for the 
summer season, giving liberal doses of manure 
water, there will not be the growth there was 
the previous year, but instead there will be 
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