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for Hepaticas and Spring Beauties and other 

 woodland flowers will get a great deal of pleas- 

 ure out of this modest, beautiful, lovable little 

 plant. It can be bought in flowering size from 

 all florists during the fall months. 



The Madame Salleroi Geranium is a stand- 

 by among easily grown plants for daily decora- 

 tive purposes. Its habit is quite unlike that of 

 the ordinary Geranium, which is almost invari- 

 ably a scraggly, awkward plant unless care- 

 fully trained. It never puts forth long branches. 

 Branches a-many it has, but they are all short 

 ones, and in a thick mass at the base of the 

 plant. Most of its energies seem to be ex- 

 pended in the production of leaves. Each 

 branch is thickly furnished with them. They 

 are of a pale green, bordered with creamy white. 

 There is so much foliage to a healthy plant 

 that you see nothing but a rounded mass of it. 

 It furnishes a charming background for pink 

 Carnations or Roses if you see fit to use a few 

 in connection with it. Simply thrust their 

 stems into the soil from which the plant grows, 

 and you have a combination that will always 

 challenge admiration. The ordinary Geranium 

 is considered one of the very easiest of all 

 plants to grow well, but this variety is of much 



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