Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar91912newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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290 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS August, 1912
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The Geranium blooms freely at all stages of growth. The illustration to the left shows plants in their first pots. That to the right, a plant of the Silver-Leafed S. A. Nutt Geranium, dark red flowers and soft green foliage edged with creamy white. This is one of the most satisfactory Geraniums for potting
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as a cut-flower—a use to which it was not formerly adapted, but for which it has, I believe, a promising future, especially on account of the long-keeping quality of the blooms. The scented-leaved sorts have long been favorites. The old popular Rose Geranium is recorded as a favorite as far back as 1690. There is a good variety of odors and leaf-forms, all very attractive, but more recent introductions have shown improvements in the plant form and size of flower,—the two objectionable characteristics which this class has had. Some of the new sorts are described more fully at the end of this article.
Then there are the variegated and tri-colored foliage sorts grown chiefly on account of their decorative quality. With these the flowers are for the most part shy and small, but a few of the newer ones, especially Silver-leafed S. A. Nutt, are as valuable for their flowers as for their foliage. The one named makes a most striking and handsome plant.
Old varieties of all these types are familiar to most of us, but the newer races of Ivy-leaved, Cyclops and Cactus-flowered, especially the last two, are as yet comparatively unknown here. Among the Ivy-leafed sorts, remarkable for the beauty of texture and form of their leaves, are to be found the most delicate shades of color, especially in the blush pinks and lilacs, so far attained in Geraniums. There is one thing that has kept the Ivies from becoming more popular as pot plants, and that is their tendency to a lanky or trailing habit of growth. While proper culture and

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