SCENTED-LEAVED PELARGONIUMS 
is the confusion that anything is possible, 
and its scent might be called " rose." 
She also speaks of quercifolmin or Oak- 
leaf : " Fair He kit ^ an Oak- leaf, the 
oldest " ; her list of Oak-leaved kinds 
might have been extended for vve grow 
at least six varieties belonging to that 
section. Fair Rosapionciis one of them, 
but it is not the plant figured by Sweet, 
for leaves and flowers are different ; the 
flowers in the plate are large and white, 
with carmine blotches on the upper 
petals, while the flowers of the variety 
that we grow are small and a dull pink. 
Then there is the quercifoUtim ini7ior of 
the trade — and a good plant too — but 
mifior is certainly a misnomer as it is 
mucli larger than Fair Ellen. Radula 
(or Stag's Hor?i) is also mentioned by 
Miss Hope, and is one of the few kinds 
which I have never seen under any other 
name ; it is a handsome, free-growing 
plant, with finely-cut leaves very useful 
for cutting. A plant offered by the trade 
as radula major is decidedly confusing 
for it does not resemble radula in the 
least, its leaves being smaller and not 
finely cut. Miss Hope speaks of Lady 
Scarborough as being the minimum va- 
riety of citriodorum^hut again this is not 
the plant as known to me or as figured 
by Sweet; his plate is perhaps meant for 
the plant that we grow, but if so it is un- 
satisfactory. The true minimum form 
of citriodorum has much smaller leaves, 
is deliciously sweet, and, to my mind, is 
perhaps the most charming of all. The 
citriodorum or crispum section is very 
bewildering for several kinds have the 
merest shades of difference, the smallest 
— that just mentioned — being one of 
I the most distinct ; the variety that we 
I grow as the Pars ley- leaved (probably 
wrongly so named) has also some marked 
characteristics; it is a much deeper green 
than the others, with leaves closely 
curled, and is more difficult to keep 
through the winter ; several times we 
have nearly lost it. Many of the scented- 
j leaved Pelargoniums do not show their 
true character as pot-plants, and it is 
! often necessary to plant them out in 
order to prove their distinctness; plants 
looking almost alike when in small pots, 
i often show marked differences when 
I grown in a bed, side by side. 
I Gera?iium abrotauifolittm (syn. ar- 
j temccsifolium) is one of the most dis- 
tinct, like a finely-cut Southernwood in 
leaf, very sweet, and so unlike a Gera- 
nium that even a good gardener to whom 
we gave it was quite incredulous until it 
flowered. Miss Hope mentions some 
varieties that we have failed to find — at 
least under her names, — vitifolium or 
the Balm-scented, Laicrencea7ium^ ser- 
riclatu7n., and Fair Emily. Her " Fair 
Hele?! " I take to be our Fair Elle?i. 
Then there is the Pheasant's Foot sec- 
tion (^glutinosu7n.^ as they are sometimes 
called, though this name is quite as often 
applied to the Oak-leaved varieties). To 
this group belong Duchess of Devo77- 
shire as we grow it (there is a second 
variety with the same name) \Jilicifolium.^ 
a very beautiful and finely-cut variety ; 
and Pheasa7i£s Foot itself, — often sent 
out as de77ticulatus 7najits and known 
under several other names. My Bla7id- 
fordia7iu77i is true to the description given 
in Sweet ; it is often called Lady Betty 
Ger7nai7ie.^ and perhaps some reader may 
