60 GARDENING INDOORS AND UNDER GLASS 
valuable uses; their delicious fragrance and also the 
beauty and long keeping quality of the leaves when 
used in bouquets or to furnish green with geranium 
blossoms. Rose and Lemon (or Skeleton) are the 
two old favorites of this type. The Mint geranium, 
with a broad, large leaf of a beautiful soft green, 
and thick velvety texture, should be better known. 
All three must be kept well cut back, as they like 
to grow long and scragegly. 
The ivy-leafed geraniums have not yet come into 
their own. To me they are the most beautiful of 
all. The leaves are like ivy leaves, only thicker 
and more glossy. The flowers, which are freely 
borne, contain some of the most beautiful and deli- 
cate shades and markings of any flowers, and the 
vines are exceedingly graceful in habit when given 
a place where they can spread out or hang down. 
Like the common or Zonal geranium, the ivy-leafed 
section has within the last few years been greatly 
improved. ‘There is space here to mention but one 
variety (L’Elegantea), whose variegated white and 
green foliage, in addition to its lovely flowers, gives 
it a wonderful charm. 
The Pelargoniums (Pansy Geraniums) — This 
section contains the most wonderful flowers of all 
the geraniums. Imagine, if you can, a rather 
graceful shrub with attractive foliage, eighteen 
inches or so high and broad, covered with loose 
clusters of pansies in the most brilliant and har- 
