'llL^ 



THE OARDENER'H MONTH! A' 



[^ April, 



difference in the nppcarftnce of the division for- 1 Pelargoniums really are, will perhaj)s be bet- 

 merly known as rolurgoniums, and the Gera- ter explained by an illustration which we 

 niunis. Our people have got to calling the old give with this. It is of a variety sent out 



Pelargonium " Washington Geraniums," deter- 

 mined to have some distinction between these 



by IVfr. Bull, and known as " Beauty of 

 Oxton." The " Zonalcs " have less twisted 



PELARGONIUM "BEAUTY OF OXTON." 



and the Zonales, which are those which have a 

 sort of horse-shoe band on the leaves— the old 

 tribe of scarlet Geraniums— though some have 

 leaves that are not so marked, and there are 

 many shades besides scarlet. What the old 



petals.— Ed. G. M.] 



Fumigating Greenhouses.—" Smoky " asks : 

 — " There is a difference of opinion as to the 

 state plants should be in, at the time of fumiga- 

 tion. When that plan is resorted to for the pur- 



