CHAPTER IX. 
THE GERANIUM HOUSE. 
THE cultivation of Fancy Pelargoniums is so well known 
and appreciated, that but few remarks are necessary to 
bring it into favour, or to induce most people to com- 
mence growing them for the purpose of sale. But as 
there may be some who never tried what can be done 
by cultivating this popular flower, I may be excused for 
making a few observations about it. 
There are many classes of this tribe, but none 
scarcely comparable to the large-flowered fancy sorts. 
These are most attractive when well grown, and are 
always saleable at good prices; of late years the Zonal 
and Nosegay classes have come into much repute, on 
account of their being all but perpetual flowerers, being 
also less difficult to grow than some of the fancy show 
sorts. The Tricolors are certainly beautiful in the 
foliage, and that is all; but they are in most cases dif- 
ficult to grow well, requiring a good and even tempera- 
ture of a moderately high degree, with good soil and 
pot room. They are, however, useful for cut foliage to 
place outside a bouquet, and for a button-hole; but 
there is no class more favoured than the original type 
of the Fancy Pelargonium, such as Queen Victoria, 
Favourite, Acme, Fanny Gair, &e. 
But it is not now my purpose to make lists of any 
