The London Gardeners' Magazine says :

"The stealing of a geranium, by a boy fourteen years of age, resulted in a sentence of ten days' imprisonment, pronounced by Mr. Barstow at the Clerkenwell Police Court. Not many, we think, even amongst lovers of gardens, will approve of \ the sentence; but we can only judge the case by the report".

In Philadelphia, such a boy would be sent to a reform school for a short time - a much better plan to protect geraniums, we think, than the old world style of the jail.