Pelargoniums 
(Martha Washington Geraniums) 
Pelargoniums rank high among our most beautiful 
Spring and Summer flowering plants, rivaling the 
Azaleas in glorious colors and wealth of bloom. 
Native to South Africa, these beautiful plants have 
in recent years been extensively hybridized with 
extraordinary gratifying results. To flower-lovers 
who have not kept in close touch with developments 
in this field, the wide range of variety and color in 
these new hybrids will be a revelation. Because of 
the many new and striking color contrast combina- 
tions, it is possible to achieve a collection of consid- 
erable size with surprisingly little duplication or 
overlapping of types. 
Culture 
The fact that Pelargoniums, in common with their 
near relations the garden Geraniums, are easy to 
propagate has created the mistaken impression that 
any slip started in the ground will make a good plant 
of itself. Actually, in order to produce a really first 
class plant, just as much care and technique is 
required as in the case of any other good pot subject. 
~The plant must be pinched and disbudded for bushi- 
ness, and it must be given regular feeding and repot- 
ting as it grows. There is accordingly a wide differ- 
ence between plants grown in the nursery and those 
propagated in the home garden. 
Although they will grow in almost any soil, for best 
results we recommend a mixture of sand, soil and 
humus which approximates a medium garden loam. 
A little leaf mold is always a welcome addition. 
Small amounts of commercial fertilizer from time to 
time will produce a more robust plant. 
Grown in the ground they will take sun or partial 
shade equally well. In pots a little shade will pro- 
duce a better flower with less tendency to discolor 
and fewer scorched leaves. 
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EVANS & REEVES make no compromise with 
quality! We take the utmost pains to offer only 
stock that is well grown, properly pruned, clean, 
healthy, and of selected varieties. 
Nursery stock that fails to measure up to this 
high standard is destroyed! We do not offer 
poor stock on sale at bargain prices! That is 
one of the reasons for our outstanding reputa- 
tion for highest quality plants. 
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