. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 1262 PELARGONIUM who founded the species on previous descriptions. One of the descriptions (Dillenius, in "Hortus Elthamensis," 1732) was accompanied by a picture, and this picture, reduced one-half, is reproduced in Fig. 1C98. It will be seen that even in th
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 1262 PELARGONIUM who founded the species on previous descriptions. One of the descriptions (Dillenius, in "Hortus Elthamensis," 1732) was accompanied by a picture, and this picture, reduced one-half, is reproduced in Fig. 1C98. It will be seen that even in that early day the species had varied into a form with short-notched petals and short pedi- cels. Introduced into England in 1714. 3. hortdrum, Bailey. Common Fish or Bedding Gera- nium. Figs. 169iV1701. The common Geranium in great numbers of forms, derived from the blending of P. zonule and P. inquinans in more than a century of careful selection. The original species are not now in cultivation. Practically all garden Geraniums have the zonal marks on the leaves or bands or a central blotch of variegation. Some of them have intermingled colors of green, white and red on the same leaf. Some are "silver-banded" and some "; See Fig. 1701. AA. Plant weak and usually trailing, the branches slender and not succulent: Ivs. fleshy and glossy, lobed, marginally peltate : inflorescence umhellate : good stamens 7, 2 upper shorter. {Dibrachya.) Ivy-Leaved Geraniums. 4. pelt&tum, Ait. [P. scut&tum, Sweet. P. hederaefb- lium, Hort.). Fig. 1702. Plant with , more or less zigzag stems which are glabrous or very nearly so (except at the top): Ivs. glabrous or minutely pubescent, fleshy, the petiole inserted .just inside the margin at the base, about 5-nerved, with about 5 short wide, mostly obtuse main lobes and often with smaller minor lobes or angles and notches: peduncle very long, originally 4-8-fld., but now bearing many greatly modi-
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