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THURSDAY,  SEPTEMBER  10,  1836. 
TPIE  SCARLET  GERANIUM. 
By  Grant  Allen. 
Most  people  who  profess  their  admiration  of 
“  good  old-fashioned  flowers,”  would  pro¬ 
bably,  if  asked  to  mention  one  example  of  their 
favourite  type,  name  at  once  the  scarlet  Gera¬ 
nium.  It  would  perhaps  surprise  many  of  them 
not  a  little  to  learn  that  this  “  dear  old-fashioned 
thing  ”  is  a  comparatively  late  addition  to  our 
I  flower  gardens,  having  been  really  introduced  to 
common  cultivation  about  the  beginning  of 
the  present  century.  The  name  “Geranium,” 
indeed,  occurs  pretty  freely  in  works  of  an 
earlier  period,  but  in  them  it  refers  to  the 
true  Geraniums  of  Europe,  not  the  brilliant 
Cape  of  Good  Hope  Pelargoniums,  which 
have  now  almost  usurped  the  style  and  title 
of  the  more  indigenous  Cranesbills.  Our 
so-called  “  sparlet  Geranium  ”  is  a  Geranium  by 
family  indeed,  but  not  by  genus ;  it  belongs 
to  the  restricted  group  of  Pelargoniums,  which 
differ  from  the  true  Geraniums  of  the  North  in 
several  technical  points  to  be  hereafter  described. 
The  object  of  this  article  is  to  explain  these 
points  of  difference  in  such  a  way  that  they  may 
be  really  understood,  not  merely  accepted  as  so 
much  dead  fact  or  given  freaks  of  Nature. 
The  longest  way  round  is  the  shortest  way 
home,  and  if  you  really  want  to  understand  the 
nature  of  the  scarlet  Geranium,  you  cannot  do 
bettor  than  begin  by  trying  to  understand  the 
common  garden  “  Nasturtium.”  As  most  garden 
plants  are  called  by  names  which  do  not  belong 
to  them,  by  the  way,  it  will  not  surprise  you  to 
learn  at  the  outset  that  the  so-called  “  Nastur¬ 
tium  ”  is  not  a  Nasturtium  at  all,  but  a  South 
American  Tropieolum,  The  true  Nasturtiums 
of  science  are  the  Watercresses,  but  as  this 
American  plant  happens  to  have  also  pungent 
leaves,  it  was  call  ed  by  the  first  discoverers  “  Indian 
Cress,”  which  trivial  name  was  elegantly  latinised 
by  over-zealous  gardeners  into  “Nasturtium.” 
But  the  Tropaeolum  and  the  Watercresses  have 
really  about  as  much  to  do  with  one  another  as 
Goodwin  Sands  and  Tenterden  Steeple.  Well, 
if  you  examine  the  flower  of  a  garden  “Nastur¬ 
tium  ”  or  Tropseolum,  you  will  find  that  its 
most  striking  feature  is  a  spur,  which  forms  a 
prolongation  of  the  upper  lobe  of  the  calyx- 
This  spur  contains  honey,  accessible  only  to 
No.  2502.— You.  XOY.,  Old  Skbikb 
