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THE FLORIST AND POJIOLOGIST. 
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men blood in it, named NepmiJet^e Amhaf!scidi,r. In 
Mr. Whittaker’s cn]nstand, Masterpiece was grand 
as a feathered bizarre, well deserving its name when 
feathered in this way, as an arrangement in black 
and yellow. Mrs. Lea was also cleverly feathered, 
a fine rose, and finer still perhaps in the flamed 
character, in which state this variety is not too apt 
to flash its feather with age. 
In the hev. 1’. D. Horner’s winning iian of .six, 
were Barlo'ir’s TIion. a rare and perfectly-feathered 
strain of a pare dark rose. This flower, like Heroine 
and other pnre class-mates, possesses the great cpiality 
of opening pure white, and so being fit to show at 
once. ]\irs. Cooper was hero and in the following 
class as perfect as in the cup-pan of twelve varieties. 
In Mr. Haynes’ pan, Svlphw was in fine feathered 
character, a strong flower. Mr. llarber had, in 
common with other exhibitors. Duchess of Suiher- 
layid, well flamed. This is a long-cupped byblcemen, 
not known as a feathered flower, ahviiys boldly 
marked, and with all its faults of form indispensable 
to a collection yet. Mr. Barber also had a feathered 
byblcemen sccdb'ng, somewhat after Bessie in general 
style, and that may break well out into a clear, long 
pencilled-feather. Mr. Yates showed a good- 
feathered byblcemen marked “unknown,” but for a 
shorter though better cup and less hcgbacked petals, 
it might have been a good Friar Tnck. 
In the class for three feathered, Sforer's No. 4 was 
a fine feathered flower, the best feathered bizarie of 
Storcr’s ; rich, deep, yellow ground, and heavy, rich, 
dark brown feathering. Li the way of flamed 
bizarres, Orion, a brothcr-flow'er to Dr. Hardy, with 
a more rounded cup, was richly flamed; and a 
flamed rose named Lady Seften was a bcautifnl 
variety, with a touch of the purple of the well-known 
Cereus speciosissimus in its rich scarlet flame. Mr. 
Whittaker showed in several classes a flamc'd bizarre 
named 1‘rince of IT’ute, a model for substance, cup, 
and level breadth of petal, well flamed, with a strong 
dash of the old San .lo colouring. Georqe Hayirard 
was shown among the feathered bizarres, a rich bold 
flower, heavily plated, but seldom seen in his mas¬ 
sive feathering, being a very uncertain flower, 
running out into flame, and in that state seldom satis¬ 
factory. Noticeable in feathered bizarres was a 
bloom from the Kev. F. D. Horner of Hu7,-c of Devon¬ 
shire, perfect in its colouring, and a surprise, as being 
a flower that had dropped out of sight and mind at 
the National Show. 
MARKET PLANTS.—XIII. 
Zonal Pelargoniums. 
is but attesting a truism when I state 
€j Jib that Zonal Pelargoniums are largely 
grown for market purposes. A few 
weeks ago, I looked through the nurseries of 
Messrs. Hawkins and Bennett, at Twickenham, 
■who are large growers of Zonal Pelargoniums 
for market, and in answer to my inquiries as 
to the numbei's they oultKated, I was informed 
that on April 1st they had of Vesuvius 900 
doz. in 48-pots, and 1,300 doz. in GO-pots, in 
all, 26,400 plants; of the Madame Vaucher, 
800 doz. in 48-pots, and 900 doz. in 60-pots, 
in all, 20,400 plants ; of Princess Teck, 400 doz. 
in 48-pots, and 300 doz. in 60-pots, in all, 8,400 
plants ; of Christine, 260 doz. in 48-pots, and 
500 doz. in 60-pots, in all, 9,120 plants ; and of 
the Shah, GOO doz.; in all, 7,200 plants. Every 
year an enormous stock of this kind has to 
be w'orkecl up, which increases, rather than 
diminishes, as the years pass; and what a 
task it has been to multiply and grow on this 
quantity, in the face of such a winter and 
spring as that we have passed through, can be 
more readily imagined than described. Con¬ 
stant watchfulness and unremitting and un¬ 
flagging pains have been exercised and put 
into operation to secure in the best condition 
these vast supplies. They are in fine condi¬ 
tion, for no difficulties appear to be too great 
to be surmounted by those who make a speci¬ 
ality of market plants. 
In addition to the varieties named, Madame 
Lemoine and Marie Lemoine, as also Madame 
Thibaut, are being tried as double pink-flowered 
varieties for cutting from for market; but they 
rec^uire what Mr. Hawkins terms a lot of heat 
in -^vinter, and they need to be kept very dry. 
I may here remark that Princess Teck is a 
pink-flowered variety, that is a better doer, 
better flowerer, and a better keeper than the 
old Christine, which it will certainly replace— 
in fact, it will live wTereChristine will starve; 
like Christine, it has plain leaves. The Shah 
is a very fine rich orange-crimson flowered 
variety, large in the pip, bright in colour, and 
noble in the truss, which it is thought will 
make a good market variety, but it requires ten 
degrees more of heat in winter than Vesuvius. 
This last is the very best of market zonals ; it 
is unrivalled for the many uses to which it 
can be put. Madame Vaucher still stands at 
the head of the whites for market purposes. 
Mr. Hawkins stated he had tried all of them, 
but none can stand by the side of his old 
favourite. Wonderful, the double form of 
Vesuvius, has been much grown, but it is 
giving place to Vesta, a new variet}'- raised 
some years ago by Mr. Laxton. It does not 
do like Vesuvius for winter work, as it requires 
at least ten degrees more of heat to get its 
flowers to expand nicely. 
During the winter months, cut flowers are 
taken from Vesuvius, Madame Vaucher, and 
Princess Teck. At the end of Februaiy, the 
tallest are cut dowm to within three inches of the 
pot, and when they begin to break are turned 
out of the pots, the roots reduced, and repotted 
into 48-pots, in a good, free, and rather sandy 
loam and dung, and grown on for marketing in 
spring and early summer. The w'ood thus ob¬ 
tained is very useful to make cuttings from, 
though all growers of Pelargoniums admit that 
the harder and the riper the wood, the better 
and the more cpiickly do they root and grow 
into plants. A very large number of cuttings 
are also taken during the summer months, and 
these are put into store-pots, shifted into 60- 
pots, and then got on to 48-pots, in the usual 
course. 
The great success which attends the culture 
