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FANCY PELARGONIUMS. 
readily mix with others, which, though the brilliancy of their 
flowers is unsurpassed, is the less to be regretted, as the intro¬ 
duction -of the rampant vigour Y\'hich distinguishes them would 
he fatal to the compact style it is desirable that the new race 
should be remarkable for; a very beautiful tint, quite novel 
among dwarf varieties, will be found available in an old climbing 
kind, known as “Rollison’s Unique,” or “Crimson Climber,” 
which, were its rambling subscandent character suppressed, 
would be one of the most beautiful we possess ; another old and 
nearly-forgotten variety, called “ La Belle d’Afrique,” promises 
much towards the production of dark plum-coloured seedlings; 
these, with such as Daveyanum, Burnettianum, Goweri, Gurney- 
anum, and the newer kinds, Lady Flora Hastings, Queen 
Victoria, Jenny Lind, Anais, and the beautiful Queen Adelaide 
represented in our plate, will constitute the working-stock of 
those who begin at the present stage of the fancy. 
We have hitherto spoken only of seminal varieties, which pro¬ 
mise to be useful in the production of new members of the class, 
but it is quite probable that assistance may be derived from a 
portion of the species, and thus, by combining the advantages 
which the patrons of that section promise to themselves, with 
those already existing as before described, some unexpected and 
perhaps startling novelty may result. Botanists have separated 
the genus Pelargonium into several genera, as Ciconium, Cam- 
pylia, Otidia, Phymatanthus, Jenkinsonia, and others, which 
arrangement is of undoubted assistance to svstematists, but 
tending rather to mislead the cultivator, for nearly all these so- 
called genera will mingle and produce hybrids one with another, 
so that to define the limits of either correctly, when the cross¬ 
breeds are taken into the account, is most difficult; for our 
present purpose, however, it may be sufficient to say that Phy¬ 
matanthus and Campylia combine most readily with the true 
Pelargonium, and therefore any of their species may be made 
the subjects of the first experiments; but though these are re¬ 
commended, it must not be understood to infer the exclusion of 
any others, for in the present state of uncertainty which attaches 
to the subject, we must depend mainly upon actual experiment 
to determine what may or may not be accomplished, and so 
when a promising feature is apparent in any member of the 
