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THE GERANIUM. 
Then names are good, for how without their aid 
Is knowledge gained by man, to man conveyed; 
But from that source shall ail our pleasures flow ? 
Shall ail our knowledge be these names to know ? — 
No ! let us rather seek in grove and field, 
Wh'at food for wonder, wbat for use, they yield ; 
Some just remark from nature’s people bring, 
And some new source of bornage for her king. 
Crabbe. 
The garden is now in high beauty— I was going to 
write the word perfection —when I remembered that the 
Roses are withered; and how can the flower-garden 
be perfect, lacking their soft bright tints and their 
exquisite fragrance ? The greenhouses are almost 
deserted, for the plants which they sheltered in the 
Winter now add their beauty to a host of hardier 
flowers. Amongst these the various species of Pélar¬ 
gonia are general favourites. To most persons they 
are familiar under the name of Géraniums, but botanists 
do not recognise them by this appellation. The title 
