Propagation and Training of Plants. 67 



Tropeeolwms, Ivy-leaved Geraniums, and many others, 

 always look best trained over wire globes or trellis- 

 work, as represented by the figures below. Ivy-leaved 

 geraniums especially make a beautiful window-screen 

 when grown in a box in your window and trained over 

 an ornamental wire trellis fixed firmly to the box. 

 Try this, and you wiU find what a pretty window- 

 screen it makes. 



WIEB PIulNT TEAINEES. 



To keep your plants in shape, if a strong shoot 

 threatens to spoil the outline of your specimen, pinch 

 the point ofl^ and it will throw out side shoots to keep 

 the proper shape. Young plants of Geraniums, 

 Fuchsias, &c., that you want to branch out and make 

 bushy specimens, must have their leading shoots treated 

 in the same way. 



