1 78 POPULAR GARDEN FLOWERS 



The last-named luxuriated in the cool surroundings, as 

 it does in the Yorkshire and Derbyshire dales, but on 

 being removed to a hot, exposed hillside on limestone 

 soon dropped out of existence. The Shining Crane's- 

 bill (lucidum) and the Herb Robert will both thrive on 

 dry sites. 



There is a handsome allied plant to the Crane's-bill 

 in the Heron's-bill (Erodium Manescavi), which succeeds 

 on a dry sandy or chalky soil, and is by way of being a 

 favourite with lovers of hardy plants. 



The Zonal Geranium. It would be affectation to 

 attempt to exclude the Zonal Pelargonium from the 

 ranks of the Geraniums, even though it be not a true 

 Geranium botanically. We cannot take one of the 

 people's flowers by the scruff of the neck and thrust it 

 out of the G's into the P's without a word of explanation. 

 We shall find, if we try this, that we shall have shoals of 

 indignant letters demanding to know why we have left 

 out a popular garden plant from our list ; and when we 

 explain that we have not left it out, but have merely 

 put it into its proper place, we shall have a fresh shoal 

 of letters, couched in even more scornful terms than 

 before, charging us with pedantry. 



As long as the prefix " zonal " is used, there seems to 

 be no harm in referring to the modern varieties of Pelar- 

 gonium zonale as Geraniums. There are many species 

 of Pelargonium, and they might be classed into two 

 sections those with wrinkled green leaves and those 

 with flat leaves having a colour zone marked upon 

 them. It is only the latter that can be acknowledged 

 as Geraniums ; the others are, always have been, and 

 always will be, Pelargoniums. 



The zone-leaved Geranium came from the Cape of 

 Good Hope in 1710. It is a shrubby plant, retain- 



