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a chill will often send a Geranium that has suc- 

 cessfully withstood an actual frost to its end. 

 Try and keep the room in which you have 

 your window .of Geraniums at an equable tem- 

 perature. If the day is a sunny one, the tem- 

 perature may run up to seventy-three degrees, 

 but on cloudy days sixty-eight degrees will be 

 better for them. Fifty-five degrees is a good 

 night temperature. Extremes of heat and 

 cold must be avoided at aU times. 



CUTTING AND SLIPPING 



The good housewife of days gone by found 

 one of her chiefest pleasures in the giving of 

 slips of her fine Geraniums to her most deserv- 

 ing neighbors. The ladies of Cranford would 

 have missed much in life had it been otherwise! 

 And yet, underlying the generous impulse lay 

 the economic one of helping the plant along 

 by cutting. Now, this is always a necessary 

 operation if the Geraniums are to attain per- 

 fect form — an equal height and breadth. 

 There is nothing in the window-garden more 

 distressing to see than a lanky, gaunt-looking 

 Geranivmi. In cutting, choose the branches 



