il. d^mnell & Son^’ 3?loi^kl Gfuide. 
f ELARGO NIUMS. 
James Richard Haig, Blair Hill, Stirling, writes : — 
Pelargoniums and Geraniums — I think it would he as well to settle by authority the exact 
names of those flowers that seem to be indiscriminately called Pelargoniums and Geraniums. 
Botany has been described as “ the science of giving i)olysylIabic barbarian Greek names to 
foreign weeds," but while some plants, Abies Mariesii for instance, are most carefully described, others, 
as Geraniums, seem to be called by names that do not belong to them, but to quite a different flower. 
I notice, both in your letterpress and advertisement, mention made of Zonal Pelargoniums ; now 1 
should certainly decline to receive Geraniums if 1 ordered Pelargoniums. I am old enough to remember 
that we had a parti-coloured gi’oenhouse flower of a Violet shape that was called a Geranium, then 
came a lot of hardy bedding-out stufl' with a truss of red flowers all of one colour, followed by Tom 
Thumbs and Sm-seshoes, which grew nicely out of doors. Then we are told that we must no longer 
call those meenhouse plants Geraniums, that their right and proper name was Pelargonium, and that 
those bedding-out plants were, strictly speaking. Geraniums. (No, no !) Now, however, tlie old 
name Geranium seems to be dropped for both, and the new name Pelargonium given to both, surely 
erroneously ! (No !) Let us, however, have it fairly settled which is which, so that we may clearly 
and distinctly know what we are talking about, and not make mistakes either in writing or talking, 
in sending to shows, or in ordering plants. — Gardeners' Chronicle, January Zrd, 1880. 
(E. D. S. — All the so-called Geraniums ai'e really Pelargoniums. The wild Cranesbills of the field 
are Geraniums.) 
For ^Geraniums proper see end of Pelargoniums. 
From the Gardeners' Chronicle, November 18<7t, 1882. 
Zonal Pelargoniums in Winter. — Could an3rthlng have been much finer than the splendid 
examples of single trusses of Zonal Pelargoniums Messrs. Cannell & Sons, of Swanley, set 
up at the meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society on Tuesday last ? It was not only 
the size of the individual trusses, but the splendid development of the pips, and their rich 
colours which attracted so much attention. 
From the Journal of Horticxdture, May 2nd, 1882. 
Messrs. H. Cannell, of Swanley, were awarded a Silver Banksian Medal for a most beau- 
tiful collection of Pansies and Pelargoniums. The Pansies were particularly fine. 
F’om the Journal of Horticulture, January Vlth, 1882. 
Messrs. Cannell contributed a collection of Zonals, double and single, remarkable for 
gi’eat size, good form, and brilliant colour of the fiowers. 
From the Go.rdcners' Chronicle, January \ith, 1882. 
From Swanley, stands of cut blooms of double and single Zonal Pelargoniums were 
really superb, and nothing more remarkable in the way of cultivation than the bloom of 
the double varieties in the dead of winter have been seen for some time. 
THE PELARGONIUM SOCIETY. 
The Exhibition of this Society will take place in the Gardens of the Royal Horti- 
cultural Society, Tuesday, June 26th, 1883. 
The Schedule offering Prizes (open to competition amongst members only), is now 
ready, and can be had on application to the Hon. Secretary, S. Hibberd, Esq., 
15, Brownswood Park, Stoke Newington. 
From Rev. H. A. Watson, Pope’s Hall, Boughton Malherbe, near Maidstone, 
26i!A April, 1882. 
One of the prettiest things to be seen at the National Amicula Show at South Kensington, yestcnlay, 
was your box of Zonals. I was much struck with their beauty. 
FromJ S. Robson, Esq., St. Martin’.s Priory, Canterbury, July 8th, 1882. 
The Zonals have been the admiration of everyone who ha-s seen them, and I never saw better. 
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