ON OLD-FASHIONED SCENTED PELAKGONIUMS. 



unknown correspondents form not the least of the pleasures of my 

 collection. S. Wales, the Scilly Isles, Sussex, Dorset, all have proved 

 happy hunting grounds, while one of my best specimens came out of 

 an almshouse in Wiltshire. I tell this tale to encourage all collectors, 

 and to warn them that they must not expect to walk into the nearest 

 nursery-garden and buy a ready-made collection, properly named. But 

 if anyone gets half the amusement, interest, and friendship out of their 

 collection that I do out of mine, they will never regret their ride on 

 this particular hobby-horse. 



Part II. 



By Miss Frances E. A. V. Brenan. 



No one seems, as yet, to have taken up the classing and nomen- 

 clature of the Scented-leaved Pelargoniums, and they are in a very 

 hopeless muddle, so I have tried to do it, in a very rough and sketchy 

 way, hoping that someone also interested in the subject may do it more 

 perfectly and more scientifically. 



It seems as if the Capitatum group should, by order of seniority, be 

 classed first, as the original was first introduced into this country in 

 1690. Perhaps the following table, giving dates of introduction and 

 synonyms, may be a help to collectors: — 



Pelargonium capitatum. 



Group I. 



Old Eose-scented variety of gardens, 1690 

 Kew variety. 

 nigricans, 1777. 

 minus, * Eudola. ' 



majus, * Easpberry Leaf,' ' Westonbirt,' 

 1817. 



roseum odorum, 1792. 

 * Beauty.' 

 B landfordianum . 



' Attar of Eose. ' 

 Radula, 1774. 

 ' Chit Chat.' 

 graveolens, 1774. 



,, variegatum , * Lady Plymouth,' 1817. 

 rapaceum, ' Little Gem,' * Spotted Gem,' 1788. 

 * Scarlet Pet, ' ' Lothario ' of Miss White. 



Hi . Group II. 



P. citriodorum grossularioides , * Gooseberry,' 1731 

 ,, variegatum, 1800. 



crispum, 'Lemon,' 1774. 

 m. pumilum, ' Tiny,' 1800. 



K ,, wa;tts, * Bridal Eing.' 



B maximum. 



compactum. 

 semitrilobum, 1800.. 



