LITTLE GARDENS 



town streets offer geraniums at five to ten cents 

 a pot in the spring, so that it is hardly necessary 

 to cultivate them through the winter in window- 

 boxes and pots, though they are easily raised 

 from cuttings and will grow in almost any kind 

 of soil. One really excellent use for them is to 

 fill ornamental receptacles, in parks, where asser- 

 tive accents are desired. You may remember the 

 half dozen big bronze urns on top of the 

 orangery terrace, in Versailles, flaunting their 

 blossoms above their lips, while the elaborate 

 garden below is also lustrous with red clusters. 

 Again, you may have wandered into some of 

 those quaint inn-yards in France and England, 

 where the ground is wholly hidden under cobbles 

 or flags, and noted the relief to their desert stoni- 

 ness which is gained from a single pot of gera- 

 niums at the door, or a ring of such pots about 

 the well-curb, or a group of them in the corner 

 where the hostler can spray them when he washes 

 the wagons. Sometimes they are arranged In 

 rows on low, broad walls, and In rural Nor- 

 mandy they prettily edge the porches of Inns and 

 cottages. But the scarlet geranium Is a plebe- 

 ian, and it brags of its loudness and vitality the 

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