. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. ium-sized October 13, 1877.] THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 457 blooms of a whitish colour when they first show them-selves, but which ultimately turn into a good clear pinkcolour. This, however, cannot be considered as morethan a good second-rate variety, with which one of thechoice unnamed seedling sent me by M. Lemoine isidentical. 6. Madame Meyer. — A low-growing, branching-habited, free-blooming variety, with small and incon-spicuous flowers of a pale blush colour. It is of notmore than third-rate mer
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. ium-sized October 13, 1877.] THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 457 blooms of a whitish colour when they first show them-selves, but which ultimately turn into a good clear pinkcolour. This, however, cannot be considered as morethan a good second-rate variety, with which one of thechoice unnamed seedling sent me by M. Lemoine isidentical. 6. Madame Meyer. — A low-growing, branching-habited, free-blooming variety, with small and incon-spicuous flowers of a pale blush colour. It is of notmore than third-rate merit, and hardly worth a place in M. Lemoines Varieties. 1. Louis F(2«//oK/^^ (double).—This is of dwarf com-pact habit of growth, the male blooms fully and evenlydouble, and of a deep shade of salmon colour ; a beauti-ful variety. 2. W. E. Gumhleton (double) is of dwarf and com-pact habit of growth, with fully and evenly double maleblooms of a paler salmon shade than the last-namedvariety, borne on rather slight footstalks well raisedabove the foliage. The blooms are about Fig. 89.—cotyledon pestalozzvE, with section of flower, pollen-grains,and glandular hairs. a collection, save for its dwarf habit of growth andfreedom of flowering, which may perhaps recommend itto some growers as an edging to a large bed, with tallergrowing varieties in the centre. 7. F. M. Dos Santos Piana.—A variety with pointeddark green marbled foliage, in the way of Pearcei, withmedium-sized blooms, of a dull red outside and ola deep orange inside, which, however, soon tarnish onexposure to the sun, as do other inferior can be considered as a variety of second-rate meritonly. 8. James Duncan.— utterly worthless variety, of adull and washy yellow colour. How it came to be namedat all I am nliogfther at a loss to understand. 3. Argus (double) is a light red variety, with an un-evenly duplicated centre to the male blooms ; a varietyof only third-rate merit. 4. Incendie,
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