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a pretty window plant, and always does well. It needs 

 plenty of light, sun, and generous culture. 



The varieties of horse-shoe geraniums (P. zonale hybrids}^ 

 are all good window flowers, and will often bloom in winter. 

 The following are the best old varieties : 



Scarlet. Dazzle, Tom Thumb, Defiance. 



Cerise. Cerise unique. 



Pink. Rosa mundi. 



White. Boule de Neige, Lady Turner. 



Variegated Leaved. Flower of the Day, Golden Chain, Alma, Bijou. 



These latter varieties need a green-house to develop the 

 rich colors of the foliage, yet they do well as bedding plants 

 in the summer. 



P. graveolens is the common rose geranium. 



THE VERBENA. 



There are few plants which lend more beauty to the 

 flower garden in summer, or enliven the green-house in 

 the winter and early spring months in a greater degree, than 

 the verbena. From the variety of colors, the rapidity of 

 propagation, the little care needed to bloom the plant in per- 

 fection, and the abundance of blossoms, it is, and always 

 must remain, a universal favorite. 



