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Zonule Geraniums. 



ZONALE GERANIUMS. 



I DOUBT much if there is another plant in cultivation, that, in all hands, is 

 so grateful for culture as this. The cottager's wife consigns its roots to a 





cracked pitcher in lieu of a flower-pot, and places it in the feeble light of 

 iier narrow window-sill, and in the varying temperature of the little room 

 that at once serves as kitchen and parlor. Yet even in such humble quar- 



