ON PELARGONIUMS. 
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ON PELARGONIUMS. 
WITH AN ENGRAVING OF HOYLE’s TITUS AND HOYLE’s 
CHAMPION. 
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The present being the season when cultivators of this favourite 
flower are making inquiry for new varieties to add to their col¬ 
lections, in order to compete successfully next summer, we have 
thought it better to publish our figures now, while they may be 
useful to purchasers, than to reserve them for the next volume, 
when much of their interest would have passed away. 
Our plate last month contained two seedlings raised by that 
successful cultivator, P. E. Lyne, Esq.; the present are the 
production of the equally eminent raiser, G. VV. Hoyle, Esq., of 
Guernsey ; they are now in the possession of Mr. W. Miller, 
nurseryman, of Ramsgate, who, we believe, has a very healthy 
stock of the plants. Lyne’s White Perfection and Princess 
Alice, Hoyle’s Titus, Champion, and Pompey, and Beck’s Zan- 
zummin, are six that will be found indispensable, and are perhaps 
the best the season has produced. 
While on this subject, we should like to call the attention of 
our friends who are growers of Pelargoniums to that inexplicable 
and destructive disease known commonly as the “ spot; ” we 
have many and conflicting accounts of it, in some instances 
resulting, or appearing to do so, from an excess of moisture; in 
other cases the contrary treatment has prevailed, and yet the 
plants have been equally subject to its ravages. We are 
desirous of doing something towards the suppression of this pest, 
and as the best means of deriving a correct opinion as to its 
origin, we invite those interested to send us a statement of its 
first appearance with them, and under what circumstances it 
seems to extend with the greatest rapidity, and if any and what 
remedy has been applied, together with the result. 
It is generally regarded as the work of either a parasitical 
fungus or some extremely minute insect; but we are fearful the 
primary cause will be found an inbred constitutional weakness, 
caused by the very high breeding the plant has been subject to, 
for we have never been cognizant of an attack of the same 
nature on any of the old kinds, which retain their original 
