Mr J. R. Pearson of the Chilwell Nurseries, Nottingham, has made his name famous through his indefatigable and most successful efforts in producing so many new and improved varieties of Bedding Pelargoniums for summer flower-garden decoration, and for pot-culture. What a host of fine ones we are indebted to him for ! - Milton, Shakespeare, William Thomson, Duke of Devonshire and his gardener Thomas Speed, Major Clarke, Lady Belper, Chilwell Beauty, Alfred, and Bayard, all eminent names and eminent varieties, as well as many others of more or less merit, yet none at all equalling Amaranth in the pink, and Corsair in the scarlet section. There does not exist, and it is impossible to conceive, a more beautifully chaste colour than that of Amaranth. In its profusion of massive nosegay trusses it far surpasses all other pink varieties. It is of robust growth, and well adapted for the centres of beds or lines in ribbon-borders, where it harmonises with any colour, no matter what hue: viewed closely or at a distance the effect is magnificent. Pot-plants are alike effective in the greenhouse or conservatory. Some now blooming in 7-inch pots are bearing trusses sixteen inches in circumference.

The value of Corsair may be estimated as decidedly excelling that excellent variety Vesuvius, which it very much resembles in colour, habit, etc, but there is a richness about the fine scarlet flowers of Corsair which does not exist in Vesuvius. Individually the bloom is larger, and the whole truss of better substance. Both Corsair and Amaranth are comparatively new, being sent out by Mr Pearson in the spring of 1872, and those of your readers who have not got them should procure them at once, when they will be in possession of the two finest-blooming Geraniums extant. J. M.