THE PELARGONIUM. 



Trhmiimiinn f^pcv'nisniH . 



iIIE Liro'C'-Howeved pelar^ouiums, 

 with Idlied and wi'inkled leaves, 

 5l\-^vi are usually descriljed as hybrid 

 forms (if Felarf/oiiiiim npecio- 

 Hiiiii, Ijut it would lie a rash 

 proceeding- to insist on tracing- 

 all onr "show/-" ''fanc^'," 

 "spottc-d," and "regal" pelar- 

 goniums t(j any one species. 

 Indeed, it is a fpiestiim now 

 whetherjof the so-called sjiecies 

 descrihed and ligured bj- Sweet, 

 Andrews, and other autlmrs, 

 as many as one-tenth of the 

 whole can be considered en- 

 titled to specific distinctions. 

 Pdargoiiiinn fipeciosum, as 

 flow eu d about the } cai 1 7i3l), and figured in the " Monograpli 

 of Geraniums" by Andrews, has in it the making of a grand 

 greenhouse Hower. But in such ])elargoniums as we now 

 cultivate there are characters we could not hope to obtain 

 from it ; and in tui-ning over portraits of pelargoniums, 

 and, still belter, in examining a collection of Cape species, 

 we shall find a dozen or two that have as much "makino-" 



