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FASHION. 
WE  (of  wliat,  I  suppose,  I  must  now  call  the 
inferior  sex)  are  oftentimes  very  critical  of 
the  changes  of  fashion  in  which  the  fair  sex  indulge, 
and,  in  truth,  when  we  turn  over-  the  pages  of 
“Punch”  of  the  last  twenty  years,  it  is  not  wonderful 
that  we  are  amazed  and  amused  at  the  multifarious 
changes  we  see,  and  made  without  any  apparent 
rhyme  or  reason.  We  all  remember  the  days  of 
crinoline  and  pork-pie  hats,  and  we  fancy  that  we 
have  not  indulged  in  such  vagaries  of  fashion  that 
they  have  delighted  in.  And  yet  I  think  that 
though  this  may  be  true  of  the  male  attire,  it  is  not 
true  of  many  things  with  which  the  male  sex  has 
to  do,  and  gardening  is  one  of  them. 
With  an  experience  of  sixty  years  there  has  been 
much  to  record  in  this  way  ;  one  has  seen  craze 
after  craze  in  flowers  bud  forth,  flourish,  and  then 
suddenly  die  away.  I  do  not  merely  speak  of  the 
styles  of  gardening,  although  we  have  witnessed 
revolutions  in  that  respect ;  we  have  seen  the 
system  of  bedding-out  developing  to  an  absurd 
extent,  until  the  trouble  became  too  great,  and  the 
question  was  seriously  asked,  Was  it  worth  it  all  ? 
Then  followed  a  much  more  rational  system,  which 
we  may  call  the  hardy  herbaceous  style,  which  has 
now  reached  a  high  state  of  development.  The 
purveyors  of  these  plants  have  risen  up  in  all  direc¬ 
tions,  and  all  parts  of  the  temperate  zone  have  been 
ransacked  for  the  purpose  of  supplying  that  desire 
after  novelty  which  forms  so  great  an  incentive  to 
success. 
My  object  is  rather  to  look  at  the  rise  and  decline 
of  taste  or  fashion  to  a  particular  race  of  plants,  and 
I  cm  hardly  do  better  than  take  that  of  the 
Geranium  or  Pelargonium,  which  has  already  been 
referred  to.  These  names  are  sometimes  used  indis¬ 
criminately,  thereby  causing  great  confusion.  It  is 
much  better  to  regard  the  Zonal  section  as 
Geraniums  and  the  greenhouse  section  as  Pelar¬ 
goniums.  The  Zonal  is  so  called  because  of  the  dark 
zone,  more  or  less  pronounced,  which  appears  in 
the  leaf.  At  the  period  to  which  I  refer,  the  only 
evidences  of  this  section  were  large  plants  of 
rampant  growth  which  used  to  be  generally  planted 
No.  2605.— Vol.  XC1X.,  Old  Serihs^ 
