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NEW HYBEID NOSEGAY PELARGONIUMS. 
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excellent habit; this received First-Class Certificates both from the Royal Horti¬ 
cultural and Royal Botanic Societies. J. Caven Fox , bright rosy scarlet, a great 
acquisition, having large and beautifully formed pips, and extra large trusses, as 
well as an excellent habit; this also received Certificates like the foregoing. 
Flame , a variety remarkable for its brilliant colour, which is of a glowing ver¬ 
milion-scarlet, the truss large and compact, and with a capital habit ; this is a 
fine decorative variety, and will make a fine exhibition plant; it received a First- 
Class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society. The fourth it is evidently 
Mr. Smith’s intention not to distribute this season ; it is a hybrid Ivy-leaved 
variety named Conqueror , the result of a cross between an ordinal Ivy-leaved 
Pelargonium, and one of the finest of the Nosegay type, and is considered to be 
one of the most distinct of the hybrid Ivy-leaved race yet raised. 
Messrs. Carter and Co., of Holborn, and Crystal Palace Nursery, Perry Hill, 
will distribute seven of these new Pelargoniums, viz., two of the ordinary Zonal 
type :— Dr. Livingstone , brilliant crimson-scarlet, with distinct white eye, very 
bright and showy; and Troubadour , soft rosy salmon, a very pleasing shade of 
colour, and a large bold flower. Of the hybrid Nosegay type they will distribute : 
—King of the Forest , deep crimson flowers, large and bold, with noble truss, an 
excellent exhibition variety; Magnificum , salmon-scarlet, tinted with carmine, 
white eye, very large and full truss ; Overall , purplish magenta, a very pleasing 
shade of colour, and very large, well-shaped truss ; and Progress , purplish car¬ 
mine, the flowers of great substance, lasting for a considerable time, and forming 
large full truss. The seventh is a hybrid Ivy-leaved, named Favonia , colour 
purplish carmine, darker in hue than Lord Palmerston, and likely to prove a 
valuable addition to this favourite class. 
Mr. Cannell, of Woolwich, has secured a batch of seven varieties. He will 
distribute :—Albert Memorial , rich fiery crimson-scarlet, a most attractive and 
fine variety; Circulator , rosy-scarlet, very fine pip, and immense truss ; Fred. 
George , glowing deep red, approaching to crimson, and because of its fertility of 
bloom and excellent habit, one of the most valuable decorative varieties ever sent 
out ; Master Harry , in the way of Jean Sisley, but with much larger pip, and a 
noble truss, extra fine quality ; Mr. Bartholomew , beautiful cerise-scarlet, with 
fine pips and immense truss, the habit dwarf and stocky ; Mrs. Edward Ottewell , 
cerise orange-scarlet, with a conspicuous white eye, the truss large and very 
attractive; and Putney Gem , clear orange-rose, very pretty, and free-blooming. 
The bedding Pelargonium is, therefore, far from being u used up ” while 
such a batch of fine varieties is being produced, and as many other raisers have 
been successful also in obtaining new varieties of acknowledged merit, there must 
be a large demand still for them. If foliaged plants are beginning to drive the 
masses of scarlet Pelargoniums from the flower-garden, or at least narrowing 
the area of their use in that way, yet they are in great demand for the sum¬ 
mer decoration of the greenhouse and conservatory, where they are unsurpassed. 
There , fine and improved varieties are as necessary as in the flower-garden, and 
