gerania

Example Sentences

• "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."
• "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."
• "Gerania were blooming in occasional window-boxes. Their flowers, Fenner said, colour of the blood of the bourgeoisie."
• "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."
• "Geraniums - I found a rose geranium that smells heavenly and is quite attractive in its own stout, shrubby sorta way -- and then it died because I overwatered the crap out of it. Gerania are much tougher than you think they oughta be, with their sissified pretty flower crap and the nice smells. But tough. Wonderfully tough."
• "> > Get in the geraniums. I heard on the weather forecast that Spring has / ... / > Don't forget the plants. / The gerania stopped outside and are doing fine. They are much tougher than are usually creditted.^([sic])"