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THE GREEN-HOUSE. 



Pelargonium purpurascens, a fine dark flower, and 

 hardy plant. 



P. zondle, one of the oldest plants of the family, very 

 hardy and of considerable beauty. Leaves finely 

 marked, and the plant, if trained on rods or against 

 a wall, will cover several yards and reach 8 or 10 

 feet in height. 



P. marginatum, an elegant-flowering species, but 

 rather tender. 



P. puhescens, rugdsum, and ruhens, delicate -flower- 

 ing odoriferous plants. 



P. papilionaceumy an old showy much-esteemed 

 species. 



P. glutinosum and Mspidum, small-leaved delicate- 

 flowered plants. 



P. glutinosum, dark-green glutinous leaves and foot- 

 stalks ; flower small but of bright colours. Plants 

 much infested with the aphides, to be destroyed 

 most easily by smoking with tobacco. 



P. undulatum, virgineum, dtrum, nervifolium, pilo- 

 sum, melananfhony ovale, glaucum, stenopetalum, 

 puhescens, crithmifolium, and ceratophiflum, are all 

 elegant-flowering hardy plants deserving a place 

 where there is room. 



July. 



P. cuspidatum, an elegant-flowering hardy plant, with 

 small smooth and slightly serrated leaves. 



P. penicillatum, beautifully stripped petals on a plant 

 not unlike cuspiddtum. 



