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abundance ; and as to -variety of sorts, as well in 

 leaf as in flower, it surpasses even the flower of 

 the Auricula. How delightful the country, Xvher e 

 Geraniums form the underwood, and the Myrtles 

 tower above ! Softly, my friends. Beneath that 

 underwood lurks the poisonous lizards and ser- 

 pents, and through those Myrtle boughs the 

 deadly winged adders rustle ; while all around is 

 dry and burning sand. The Geranium is a na- 

 tive of the South of Africa; and, though it will 

 not receive its death-blow from even a sharpish 

 frost, it %vill not endure the winter, even in the 

 mild climate of England. But, then, it is so easy 

 of cultivation, it grows so fast, blows so soon, and 

 is so little troubl some, that it seems to argue an 

 insensibility to the charms of nature not to have 

 Geraniums if we have the means of obtaining 

 earth and sun. The Geranium is propagated 

 from seed, or from cuttings. The seed, like 

 that of the Auricula, does not produce flower or 

 leaf like the mother plant, except by chance. It 

 is easily saved, and for curiosity's sake, may be 

 sown to see if a new variety will come. But, a 

 cutting, from any part of the plant, old wood 

 or young wood, stuck into the ground, or into a 

 pot, will grow and become a plant, and will blow 

 in a month from the time you pat it into the 

 ground. You must have plants, indeed, to cut 

 from; but these may be, in small number at any 

 rate, in a window, during winter. When the 

 the spring comes cut them up into cuttings, put 

 these in the ground where you wish to have plants 

 during the summer. They will be in bloom by 

 July, and, before October will be large as a cur- 

 Take off cuttings from these during 



