This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V22", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
This very fine and distinct variety is one of the floral treasures Mr. Barron secured for this season at Chiswick. For its pleasing and distinct color, of a bright, pale, rosy-magenta hue, much deeper than anything that has yet appeared; for the fulness of its flowers, which are medium-sized but very double ; and for the marked freedom of habit which characterizes this fine addition to the Ivy-leaf Pelargonium, a freedom that shows itself in connection with a close and compact habit - for these fine qualities Gloire d'Orleans excels all the double forms of the Ivy-leaf - Gardener's Chronicle.
 
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