PELARGO'NIUM QUERCIFO'LIUM. 
Red oak-leaved stork's 
Var. coccinea, 
BILL. 
Class. 
monadelphia. 
Order. 
HEPTANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
geraniacea:. 
Garden 
variety. 
Height. 
1 foot. 
Flowers 
J une to Aug. 
Duration. 
Perennial. 
Cultivated 
in 1840. 
No. 1189. 
Under Pelargonium tricolor, No. 1158, lately pub- 
lished, we have explained the origin of the words 
Pelargonium, Geranium, and Erodium ; the three 
genera which have been formed out of the Geraniums 
of Linneus. 
This is a hybrid from the old, and we may say, 
favourite, Oak-leaved Pelargonium of our forefathers 
its parent having been a resident of England more 
than seventy years ago. Although neither this nor 
its immediate progenitors, have hitherto ranked 
amongst the ‘exhibition nobility’ of its race, a ‘caste’ 
if we may be allowed the expression, is now rising 
into note, amongst which it will take no mean place 
-we mean the Fancy Pelargoniums. Its colour 
will here be found valuable. 
In this place it is introduced chiefly as a window 
plant, for which purpose it is most valuable, chiefly 
on account of its almost perpetual flowering habit 
Ot window plants that give us their beauty in spring, 
and the early part of summer, we have abundance • 
but we want autumn and winter flowerets, and here 
wc shall give that course of management of the plant 
now published which will insure such advantage. 
