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БЫН IUMS. 
(Continued from p. 98.) 
in прос {6 the * bedding 
Geraniums,” which we have already 
noticed, comes Ze “ Pelargonium” of popular 
nomenclature. Ifthe variety observable in the 
former species was remarkable, what shall we 
say of the range in colour and form which is 
displayed in the blossoms of these most beauti- 
ful plants? It would be impossible to believe 
that such results could be produced by culti- 
vation if the plants themselves were not a „©; 
evidence of the fact; and the wonder is i 
creased by the recollection a "ibis ri ot 
Pelargoniums is of much recent intro- 
pon to our collections iin: din zonal” and 
“starlet” 
It would be impossible to ascertain Е zr 
degree of certainty the parentage of any given 
г. He msley, tallow: 
EXT 
are 
It is normally 
a white-flowered plant of diffuse habit, having a 
very long slender tube to the calyx and long- 
stalked A leaves: it was ges 
by Masson about 1794, and specimens from 
Kew Gardens in zr are in the British Museum 
herbarium. It is a pretty plant enough, a 
would be an interesting reintroduction, and Mit 
have had considerable influence upon existing 
varieties ; it is figured in Sweets Geraniacee 
(tab. oe and Andrews’ "Botanists Repository 
(tab. 
It ri "however, probable that many o 
niums are connected wil 
introduced to our gardens by the Earl of Port- 
land as early as 1690. Dr. Harvey considers 
that many of the garden hybrids are derived 
from this species, which is very common about 
Cape Town, boh it is often used as an orna- 
mental hedge plan 
In Andrews’ СОРУР there are several 
Pelargoniums which have a very strong resem- 
blance to certain of the varieties now in cultiva- 
petals of which are striped with dark red ; this 
* was raised by M r. Perry, nurseryman, at Ban- 
bury, in Оон, in 1809, and was there 
d a guinea each plant, being then a 
Geraniums are now. so comm cheaper." 
We may note ez passant that, although the 
above passage must have been written in 1816, 
if the date of the raising of the plant be correctly 
given, the two volumes of Geraniums bear the 
date 1805 on эса title-pages. 
nium pubescens is si to anotb 
greenhouse TERM which is characterised by 
its leaves, stems, and calyces being covered 
with a soft, more or less viscid, pubescence; the 
flowers are of a pinkish lilac throughout, the 
two upper petals being pear and copiously 
veined with blackish red,. with a spot of the 
same colour in the centre. This, Andrews says, 
“appears to be the coinpound production of 
р 
several different тб His Geranium spe- 
ciosum is a familiar white-flowered form, the 
upper petals of which are veined, but not 
blotched, with red-purple; and his variety of 
G. formosum is a similar plant, but the upper 
petals are both blotched and veined with 
by Dr. Harvey, who does not attempt to identify 
the Pelargoniums named by Sweet and Andrews. 
The monograph of the genus in De Candolle's 
Prodromus does indeed take up these names 
and figures, but it is of little practical use. At 
he figures “a flower 
*are all varieties of our G. 
must be 
with this species, if the limits of our plate would 
have admitted them." He also figures a range 
of varieties of P. grandiflorum. 
n the five volumes of Sweets Geraniacee, 
which followed Andrews! book, and were 
lished in 1820-30, very many of the Pelargo- 
niums now in cultivation are beautifully figured, 
their origin being in many cases stated ; and seve- 
ral species and varieties not now grown are also 
illustrated. Too much praise cannot be bestowed 
n the care manifested in the plates of this 
work, which throws much light upon the history 
of *fancy Geraniums," but which space will 
not allow us to do more than refer to ex 
passant, 
The Ivy-leaved Geranium (P. emm 
* Geranium Ivy," or * Flowering Ivy" as it i 
often called by cottagers, with whom it is a 
d climber, was 
e 
1701 from seeds brought from the Cape. It 
spread very rapidly in English gardens. Petiver, 
in the Philosophical Transactions for 1713, 
flowers are large, of a blush colour ; 
all of the same size, and the two upperinost 
streak'd with red. It flourishes most part of 
the year at Chelsey, Fulham, Enfield, &c, It 
grows wild in the districts of Haycoon at the 
Cape of Good Hope.” А copy of this descrip- 
tion accompanies a specimen from Petiver in 
the Sloane herbarium. Several forms of this 
species are in cultivation, notably a variegated 
one, and one with a dark zone in the centre of 
the leaf; the former variety is figured 
Andrews. The hybrids lately produced between 
this species and P. zonale Have deservedly 
attracted much attention. 
* sweet-scented Geraniums" next come 
under notice. Thre 
frequently met with: it has long-stalked hairy 
leaves, which are palmately lobed or nearly 
ts themselves being also 
with a darker spot. 
land by Francis om in 1774, and speci- 
mens grown at Kew in 1778 are in the British 
Macs herbarium. Mr. Lowe says that it 
is used everywhere in gardens in Madeira for 
forming ornamental clipped hedges. In this 
island it forms a stiff bushy shrub, from 1 to 3 
Dr. Har¥ey calls it < balsams Ej 
Lowe characterises it as a “strong, disagree- 
