Gleeful, we enter a sunny room with geraniums on the window-sill, bright maps on the wall, and a beautiful young lady at the desk.
There was a baby carriage on the porch, a swing beneath the shaggy dooryard pine, there weregeraniums at the window, and gleaming milk-pans on the back porch.
To have geraniums blooming in the house all winter prepare plants in two ways, as follows: First, in May or June pot up a number of old plants.
The ivy-leafed geraniums have not yet come into their own.
The best time for propagating the general supply of geraniums is from September 15th to the end of October.
Plants such as geraniums and heliotrope, which are wanted for blooming in early winter, should be kept rather dry and all buds pinched off.
As a rule the flowering plants, such as geraniumsand heliotropes, require more light and sunshine than those grown for foliage, such as palms, ferns and the decorative leaved begonias.
The varieties ofgeraniums now run into the hundreds--a wonderful collection.
The geraniums and salvias blaze in the autumn sun; the begonias have grown to a small forest of beautiful foliage and bloom; the heliotropes have become almost little trees, and load the air with their delicate fragrance.
Some of the larger growing geraniums or very sturdy plants require two-and-one-half inch pots, but the smaller size should be used when possible.
Around the roses she placed, instead of the green setting of sweet marjoram and althea, another of white and blue violets, and next a row of geraniums of all colors, combining them exquisitely.
The name was embroidered in geraniums on the velvet of the close-cut turf.
Then a familiar voice leapt out at them from a sky-blue house-boat, with sky-blue curtains fluttering in the windows and a rim of scarlet geraniums running round it in boxes.
The door at Mrs. Dumont's was open, and a servant was assisting an old man to carry in some geraniums and balsams out of the covered cart which had stopped the way.
Geraniums are known to bloom a great deal more freely where the roots are confined to a small space, and the soil about them kept rather dry; especially is this so with the double sorts.
Daisies and dandelions are fair substitutes for geraniums and cacti!
The effect upon the geraniums was certainly almost instantaneous, the buds beginning to burst in about five or six minutes, and the plants being in full bloom within ten minutes, when the blossoms were gathered by M.
He managed to slip his head out between the edge of an awning and the mignonette and geraniums of a window-box.
In her saddest hours, the passing fragrance and beauty of her favourite geraniums cheered and revived her.
Even across the park she could see the bright geraniumsblooming in the windows under Madame Henri's loving care.
She walked around and around the square, staring miserably at the people who passed her and always keeping in sight of the long windows where the pink geraniums shone in the spring sunlight.
Geraniums breathed over me; roses smiled at me; a daphne at one end of the room filled the whole place with its fragrance.
I had not been in such a greenhouse in a long time; the geraniums and roses and myrtles summoned me back to the years when I was a little happy thing at Melbourne House--or summoned the images of that time back to me.
The geraniums and the roses set me back there so sharply that I felt it all.
Geraniums were open to the same objection, besides being a little tender as to the cold.
A long stretch of hill brought the tired old mare to a slow walk, and enabled the Deacon to see the Widow Tillman clipping the geraniums that stood in tin cans on the shelf of her kitchen window.
He could not but compare her surroundings with the little house, all geraniums and muslin curtains, in which the new Mrs. Chelmsford was lodged.
She has given up her ugly flat and taken a nice little house, and in summer I notice she has red geraniums in the window boxes.
These plants are of the easiest culture, and succeed wherever geraniums can be grown.
In fall it is a mass of scarlet and crimson, quite as brilliant as the bed of geraniums near by.
I prefer single Geraniums to double ones for garden use, because they drop their old petals, and never take on the ragged appearance which characterizes the ordinary bedding Geranium.
Scarlet Geraniums are used a great deal where a strong color-show is desired, but they are not as satisfactory as many other plants because of their ragged look, after a little, unless constantly given care.
There were geraniums in the front garden, and calceolarias and lobelias; of course, the children were not allowed to pick these.
He bit off the end of a fresh cigar, lighted it and then threw it across the geraniums into the grass.
Geraniums (and fuchsias and nasturtiums as well) have taken kindly to this low temperature, the geraniums blooming as finely as in the open during summer.
All my best geraniums were consigned to an upper room, where no furnace heat could reach them, and where, in cold nights, the temperature falls perilously near to freezing point.
Illustration: Winter Corner at The Lilacs] Some of the low-growing annuals may effectively border the show beds where late in May the geraniums are set on the removal of spring bulbs, which I find it best to lift and dry off for fall planting.
In the material world new discoveries are continually upsetting old conclusions; and we are now told that our geraniums and fuchsias have a natural affinity for tight-bottomed tomato cans!
In dusty enclosures, supposed to be gardens, shrivelled geraniums scattered sparsely alone defied the heat.
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