. Gardening indoors and under glass; a practical guide to the planting, care and propagation of house plants, and to the construction and management of hotbed, cold-frame and small greenhouse. be kept well cut back, as they liketo grow long and scraggly. The ivy-leafed geraniums have not yet come intotheir own. To me they are the most beautiful ofall. The leaves are like ivy leaves, only thickerand more glossy. The flowers, which are freelyborne, contain some of the most beautiful and deli-cate shades and markings of any flowers, and thevines are exceedingly graceful in habit when givena place
. Gardening indoors and under glass; a practical guide to the planting, care and propagation of house plants, and to the construction and management of hotbed, cold-frame and small greenhouse. be kept well cut back, as they liketo grow long and scraggly. The ivy-leafed geraniums have not yet come intotheir own. To me they are the most beautiful ofall. The leaves are like ivy leaves, only thickerand more glossy. The flowers, which are freelyborne, contain some of the most beautiful and deli-cate shades and markings of any flowers, and thevines are exceedingly graceful in habit when givena place where they can spread out or hang the common or Zonal geranium, the ivy-leafedsection has within the last few years been greatlyimproved. There is space here to mention but onevariety (LElegantea), whose variegated white andgreen foliage, in addition to its lovely flowers, givesit a wonderful charm. The Pelargoniums (Pansy Geraniums)—Thissection contains the most wonderful flowers of allthe geraniums. Imagine, if you can, a rathergraceful shrub with attractive foliage, eighteeninches or so high and broad, covered with looseclusters of pansies in the most brilliant and har-.
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