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Pelargonium continued. 
winter. Attend to repotting and tying those large 
enough for flowering early in spring, and provide them 
with a light house or pit, with a temperature of about 
55deg. Here they will soon) grow rapidly, and timely 
attention must be given to /tying the new growths to 
Some of the sorts are not trailers; 
the habit will, of course, distinguish between them at 
once. Ivy-leaved Pelargoniums are much benefited by 
frequent syringings up to the time they come into 
flower; they also require plenty of water at the root. 
_ InsEcts. Pelargoniums are not much injured by insects, 
with the exception of Aphides, particularly Green Fly. 
These invariably affect all the sections more or less, 
though not the Zonals, and those allied to them, so 
much as the others. Fumigating is the best remedy; it 
should be practised rather frequently in spring, for pre- 
vention as well as cure. It is specially important that 
the plants should be free from insects at the time they 
come into blossom, as many of the flowers would be de- 
stroyed by measures being afterwards taken to effect an 
eradication. 3 
P. abrotanifolium (Southernwood-leaved).* fl. white or rosy, 
the two broader upper perei having a red spot ; calyx tube much 
longer than the pedicels. May. l. powdery, fan-shaped, three- 
parted ; lateral segments deeply two or three-lobed; terminal 
one multifid, with linear, channelled, blunt lobes. R. 3ft. 1791. 
A slender, canescent shrub. (Sw. Ger. 351.) 
P. angulosum (angular). fl. purple, with dark streaks, panicled ; 
edicels and calyces dakal any and rough; petals twice as 
ong as the acuminate sepals. Summer. J. shortly stalked, 
truncate or broadly-cuneate at base, with three to five shallow, 
angular, acute, toothed lobes. 1724. A large bush. From this 
e P. cucullatum, and P. grandijlorum, have originated 
those races of garden plants known as Show, Decorative, and 
Fancy Pelargoniums. 
P. apiifolium (Parsley-leaved). A. sub-sessile; calyx tube three 
or four times longer than the reflexed segments; petals dark, 
with a pale border, obovate, reflexed. June. J. pinnati-partite , 
pae petiolate, pinnatifid-pinnate ; segments cuneate, flat, 
iniate, glabrous and glaucous. Stem thick and fleshy; 
flowering branches slender, herbaceous. 1800. 
P. ardens (glowing).* f. bright scarlet, shaded with a darker 
colour ; umbels many-flowered. Summer. “. hairy, cordate at 
base, oblong, unequally lobed, sometimes ternate. Stem thick, 
suffruticose. h. lft. to 14ft. This very fine garden plant is a 
hybrid between P. fulgidum and P. lobatum, (L. B. C. 139; 
Sw. Ger. 4.) 
P. betulinum (Birch-like).* f. purple, with dark streaks ; 
pedicels and calyx silky; petals twice as long as the sepals; 
peduncles deflexed, three or four-flowered. July. l. seldom lin. 
long, shortly petiolate, oval or ovate, obtuse, unequally toothed, 
sub-glabrous or scaberulous. h. 3ft. 1759. A rather slender, 
erect shrub. (B. M. 148.) 
refiexed ; peta purple, with a pal 
long petio 
and nearly as broad, softly e ge margins dentate; lateral 
shrubby, succulent, sparingly 
(B. M. 201; Sw. Ger. 97.) 
P. Bowkeri (Bowker’s).* H., calyx tube ljin. long; petals 
bipartite, eight ten lines long, purple at base, with yellow, 
capillary, fringe-like lobules ; umbel many-flowered ; scape 12in. 
to 14in. high. Summer. l, radical ones on petioles Sin. to 6in. 
long, decompound, linear-lanceolate, 5in. to Ein. long, each seg- 
ment as finely divided as a Fennel-leaf. Stem short and succu- 
lent. 1864. Herb. (B. M. 5421.) 
P. capitatum (capitate). ji. rosy-purple, in dense, many- 
flowered heads. Summer. 4 long: stalked, cordate, three to 
five-lobed ; lobes obtuse and rounded, toothed. 1790. A shrub 
with branches, in a wild state, generally trailing on the ground. 
This species is largely cultivated in the Mediterranean region 
for an essential oil distilled from the leaves, which is used as a 
perfume, and also for adulterating otto of roses. Probably, 
P. capitatum is one of the parents of the garden hybrid ROLLIS- 
son’s UNIQUE, a handsome, free-flowering plant, with purplish- 
crimson flowers. 
P. carnosum (fleshy). fl. generally white, small, on long, branched 
peduncles ; pedicels patently setose ; umbel many-flowered, with 
short bracts. May. J. 2in. to Ain. long, shortly petiolate, oblong, 
deeply pinnatifid, somewhat fleshy, cut nearly to the midrib ; 
segments flat, sharply cut or pinnatifid. Stem lft. to 2ft. high, 
succulent, clumsy, not much branched. 1724. (Sw. Ger. 98.) 
P. comptum (decked).* . many in an umbel ; calyx villous ; petals 
nearly obcordate, the upper ones larger, bright pink, lighter at 
the base, and with a dark purple spot in the centre, and numerous 
stripes below it, the lower ones darker. Summer and autumn. 
Pelargonium—continued. 
l. kidney-shaped, rounded, slightly lobed, wnequally and rather 
— notched ; petioles slender. Stem erect, branched, shrubby, 
succulent. Hybrid. (Sw. Ger. 255.) 
P. cordatum (cordate-leaved), fl. purple, white; calyx and pedi- 
cels generally densely villous ; petals twice as long as the sepals; 
peduncles branched or panicled, the partial ones short and many- 
flowered. May. J. long-petiolate, cordate, acute, denticulate, 
and sometimes repand-lobulate; stipules subulate from a broad 
base. R. 3ft. 17 An erect, much-branched, villous or sub- 
glabrous shrub. (B. M. 165 under name of P. cordifolium.) 
Fig. 63. PELARGONIUM ENDLICHERIANUM. 
P. crispum (curled-leaved).* fl. purple; sepals oblong, acuminate ; 
tals narrow; peduncles short, two or three-flowe' September. 
. in. to Iain. long, distichous, shortly petiolate, fan-sh 
truncate or cuneate at base, trilobulate or deeply three- lo 
coarsely toothed, rigid and rough, curled, strongly scented. 
‘ 3ft. 1774. A slender, much-branched shrub, (Sw. Ger. 
) 
. cucullatum (hooded-leaved). fl. purple; 9 twice as long 
as the lanceolate-acuminate se) ; pedicels and calyx silky. 
l. long-stalked, reniform-cupped, denticulate, very 
soft. 1690. This species is the parent of a large number of 
garden hybrids : some of the double forms are very pretty. 
P. denticulatum (toothed). fl. lilac or rosy-purple; upper 
petals emarginate or bifid. Summer. Z. long-stalked palmati- 
partite, glabrous and viscid above, hispid beneath ; lobes simple 
or pinnatifid, linear, flat, coarsely toothed. 1789. A slender, 
half-herb p (Sw. Ger. 109.) 
P. echinatum (bristly).* fl. mostly white, with a dark red spot on 
s, but sometimes deep purple ; petals emarginate ; 
very short ; ial peduncles six to eight-flowered. June. 
. long-petiolate, e te-ovate, obtuse, somewhat three, five, or 
seven-lobed ; lobes rounded, crenulate or bicrenulate, pubescent 
above, white-tomentose beneath. Stem fleshy, armed with Po 
a “tone stipules. A. lft. 1789. Shrub. (B. M. : 
Sw. Ger. 54. 
