FLOWERS OF GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE 
seventy years gardeners have been experimenting with some of these 
species, selecting, crossing, intercrossing, and recrossing, and producing 
such an enormous number of hybrids that it is now impossible in most 
cases to say what relationship exists between these and the original 
species. Every year sees considerable additions to the list of these 
garden varieties, and there is no probability of an immediate stoppage 
of the production of new sorts. The result is that the original species 
have been elbowed out of our gardens and greenhouses by the improved 
strains, and these the horticulturists have had to separate into sections 
according to certain marked characters. For long lists of these sections 
we must refer the reader to the most recent florists’ catalogues; all that 
we can attempt here is to give the characters of the few original species 
from which all these varieties have been produced, and to add to these 
a very brief selection of named varieties in each section. 
Principal Species PELARGONIUM ANGULOSUM (angled). Stems, 3 feet, 
' forming a large bush. Leaves with from three to five 
shallow, angled lobes, toothed and with short stalks. Flowers purple 
with darker streaks; petals twice the length of the hairy sepals. One 
of the parents of the ivy-leaved section. 
P. capitatum (growing with heads: large flower-heads). Stems 
shrubby, branching, 3 feet high. Leaves heart-shaped, but with from 
three to five obtuse, toothed lobes. Flowers rosy purple, in dense many- 
flowered umbels. 
P. cucullatum (hooded). Stems, 3 feet; leaves kidney-shaped, 
concave, toothed, of soft texture. Flowers purple; petals as long again 
as sepals; footstalks and sepals covered with silky hairs. 
P. endlicherianum (Endlicher’s). Stems erect, unbranched, 2 feet. 
Leaves chiefly radical, heart-shaped, with slight indication of five lobes. 
Flowers large, deep rosy; the two larger petals each with fine purple 
streaks; umbels many-flowered. 
P gibbosum (swollen). “ Gouty Geranium.” Stems shrubby, soft, 
joints much swollen, 2 feet. Leaves, glaucous, smooth, cut in three or 
five wedge-shaped segments. Flowers greenish yellow on very short 
stalks. 
P. grandiflorum (large flowered). Stems, 3 feet high. Leaves 
with from five to seven deeply-cut lobes arranged palmately. Flowers 
white or red, streaked with deeper red; two upper petals broader, 
marked in centre with a dark red or purple patch. Plate 57. One of 
the parents of the Large-flowered Show and Fancy Pelargoniums. 
P. graveolens (strong-smelling). " Oak-leaf Geranium.” Stems, 
3 feet, slender. Leaves heart-shaped, deeply-cut into seven to eleven 
