874 MANUAL OF GARDENING 
Fuchsia is readily grown from cuttings. Soft green wood should 
be used for cuttings, and it will root in about three weeks, when the 
cuttings should be potted. Take care not to have them pot-bound 
while in growth, but do not overpot when bloom is wanted. Given 
warmth and good soil, they will make fine plants in three months or 
less. In well-protected, partially shady places they may be planted 
out, growing into miniature bushes by fall. 
Plants may be kept on from year to year; and if the branches are 
well cut back after blooming, abundant new bloom will come. But 
it is usually best to make new plants each year from cuttings, since 
young plants commonly bloom most profusely and demand less care. 
Fuchsias are amongst the best of window subjects. 
Geranium. — What are commonly known as geraniums are, strictly 
speaking, pelargoniums. (See Pelargonium.) 
The true geraniums are mostly hardy perennials, and therefore 
should not be confounded with the tendcr pelargoniums. Geraniums 
are worthy a place in a border. They may be transplanted early in 
the spring, setting them 2 ft. apart. Height 10 to 12 in. The 
common wild craneshill (Geranium maculatum) improves under cul- 
tivation, and is an attractive plant when it stands in front of taller 
foliage. 
Gladiolus. — Of summer and fall-blooming bulbous plants, gladiolus 
is probably the most widely popular. The colors range from scarlet 
and purple, to white, rose, and pure yellow. The plants are of slender, 
erect habit, growing from 2 to 3 feet high. 
Gladioli dislike a heavy clay soil. A light loam or sandy soil suits 
them best. No fresh manure should be added to the soil the year in 
which they are grown. They should have a new place every year, if 
possible, and always an open sunny situation. 
The corms may be covered 2 inches deep in heavy soils, and 4 to 6 in 
light soils. They may stand 8 to 10 inches apart, or half this distance 
for mass effects. For a succession, they may be planted at short inter- 
vals, the earliest planting being of smaller corms in the early spring as 
soon as the soil is dry enough to work; later the larger are to be 
planted — the last setting being not later than the Fourth of July. 
