Gerania

Some gerania, aloes, ficoids, &c. which are propagated from a leaf either artificially planted or even dropping from the parent plant, reſemble the tænia whoſe joints or whoſe veſicles are ſeparated and form a perfect animal: yet each is alſo propagated in the ordinary way from an egg or ſeed; and we need not, without neceſſity, have recourſe to ſuch indiſcriminate arbitrary methods of cutting the knot which we may be able to untie.

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During those two or three hours of frost, all the heliotropes and dahlias were cut off; the former become almost black, as if scorched. Some tender shoots of the vines also were injured, but the scarlet runners and gerania were sound.

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Gerania were blooming in occasional window-boxes. Their flowers, Fenner said, colour of the blood of the bourgeoisie.

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Now: the sheets are done, the roast’s in the oven, the gerania are on the verandum, the cakes are burning—no, not yet—soon.

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