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PLANTS FOR WINDOW GARDENING. 



Winter Culture. Varieties. THE TROP^EOLUM, OR NASTURTIUM: 

 Varieties. Soil. Culture. Varieties of the small Nasturtium. Win- 

 dow Culture. 



THE GERANIUM. 



NDER this head, we propose to treat 

 of the plants usually known, in com- 

 mon parlance, as Geraniums, includ- 

 ing both those horticulturally and 

 botanically known as such, and Pelar- 

 goniums. Between these there are 

 many minute and fanciful distinc- 

 tions, which are only interesting to 

 botanists, and need not concern the 

 amateur. The true geraniums are 

 herbaceous. For window gardening, their treatment must 

 be the same. 



For the pelargoniums, we are chiefly indebted to the 

 Cape of Good Hope ; the geranium is found, in some of its 

 varieties, in Asia, Europe, and America ; two of the family, 

 our " wild geraniums," being familiar to us all as among 

 the wild flowers of spring. 



The scarlet, or horse-shoe geranium, so called from the 

 color of its flowers, and the dark marking of its leaves, is 

 a very common and popular window plant. The rose, oak, 

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