Cuttings of partially ripened wood of all pelargoniums root very easily, grow to blooming size in a short time, and, either planted out or grown in a pot, make fine decorations.
The show pelargoniums have but one period of bloom, usually in April, but they make up in size and coloring.
Old Blondet went into the Olympic circus where his six thousand pelargoniums stood, and made his bow to the Duchess.
At the end of the greenhouse the judge had set up a grandstand, an amphitheatre of benches to hold some five or six thousand pelargoniums in pots--a splendid and famous show.
In the spring, when putting her plants out of doors, she laid the pots containing Pelargoniums on their sides, and let them remain perfectly dry until fall.
Mr. Thorp says, "There are no Pelargoniums equal to them and they have a decided right to be called perpetual.
The true Geraniums are for the most part herbaceous plants inhabiting the northern hemisphere, and the Pelargoniums are for the most part shrubby or sub-shrubby plants of the southern hemisphere.
Pelargoniums are divided into classes, though we rarely see any classifications of them in the catalogues.
A young physician who raised many extraordinarily fine varieties of Pelargoniums from seed, in stating his mode of culture, said that his practice was to re-pot large plants whenever they seemed in danger of being pot-bound.
Mr. Dorner says: "Six years ago I undertook to grow some Pelargoniums from seed.
We may regard the Geraniums as herbs of Europe, and the Pelargoniums as miniature trees of Africa.
DENNY commenced the raising of Pelargoniums in the year 1866, having in view to ascertain the influence of parentage, and thus to establish a rule for the selection of varieties for seed-bearing purposes.
Another, a lady, said she never had any success with Pelargoniums until she gave them a heavy period of rest after blooming.
Like a great enchanted river, Full of witchcraft is your voice; See my pelargoniums quiver Like a leafy wood a-shiver In the breeze when daylight dies.
The various races of pelargoniums have sprung from the intermixture of some of the species obtained from the Cape.
All the pelargoniums are readily increased by cuttings made from the shoots when the plants are headed down after flowering, or in the spring, when they will root freely in a temperature of 65 deg.
In a great majority of cases too, the pelargoniumsso commonly met with in greenhouses and summer parterres are of shrubby or sub-shrubby habit.
Sweet's work; "but what are they in point of beauty compared with the Pelargoniums of this day?
Dark-coloured pelargoniums and verbenas are more scorched by the sun than varieties of other colours.
Maw informs me that all the varieties of the scarlet Pelargoniums which have contracted or imperfect leaves have contracted flowers: the difference between "Brilliant" and its parent "Tom Thumb" is a good instance of this.
Red tulips would bloom between the boulders; exquisite glowing pelargoniums and snow-white or pale-blue iris would clothe the baked earth.
It drenches the Pelargoniums and Verbenas, till their blossoms are half washed away.
Of the variegated Pelargoniums I find the Beauty of Calderdale the most effective and most vigorous, and though I am told "Mrs. Pollock has a most excellent constitution," she does less well with me.
This has been observed in pelargoniums and in the Chinese primrose, in both of which the effect was to replace the umbellate form of inflorescence by a capitate one.
The repeated cross fertilisations to which Pelargoniums have been subjected render this hypothesis not an improbable one.
Perhaps even more frequent is the increased number of parts in the same whorl in cases of regular peloria; thus, in the Pelargoniums before alluded to, the parts of the flower are frequently regulated by the number six instead of five.
Nor can any one feel the slightest interest about the hundred little pelargoniums in one bed, or the fifty calceolarias in the next.
Pelargoniums again, and calceolarias, with lobelias in front, and dark-leaved perillas in the background, made up the new ribbon border.
Put in cuttings of bedding pelargoniums in boxes, which may stand outdoors exposed to the sun, but should be sheltered from excessive rains.
Sow seed of herbaceous calceolarias; shift heaths, if they require it; cut down pelargoniums past flowering, and plant the cuttings.
Roses, carnations, camellias, azaleas, pelargoniums and the hardier sorts of plants will do better if placed in a cold frame or pit until the middle of November than they would in an ordinary greenhouse.
Plant cuttings of bedding plants, and of bedding pelargoniums in boxes for convenience of removal.
The numerous group of bugs is allied to the plant-lice (Aphides), which so often infest our Pelargoniums when kept in dwelling-rooms.
Pelargoniums differ from geraniums principally in the irregularity of their flowers, their shrubby stems and tubular nectaries.
Pelargoniums are propagated by cuttings, and cared for as the ordinary geraniums, except that they should be kept very cold and dry during their winter resting spell.
The latest news is that a German plant-breeder has produced the first of a new race of Pelargoniums (Pansy or Lady Washington geraniums) that continues to bloom as long as any of our ordinary bedding sorts.
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