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Definition of Geraniums
1. geranium [n] - See also: geranium
Lexicographical Neighbors of Geraniums
Literary usage of Geraniums
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"1f The nineteenth order includes the geraniums, the wood- sorrels, the nasturtium
vines, ... geraniums. Four varieties of geranium occur wild in Minnesota. ..."
2. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1896)
"geraniums stove or warm greenhouse plants are cultivated in gardens. ...
The so-called geraniums with thick fleshy or shrubby stems, so extensively used in ..."
3. The Green-house Companion: Comprising a General Course of Green-house and by John Claudius Loudon (1825)
"... and geraniums are almost all hardy herbaceous plants; those which are inhabitants
of the green-house are chiefly Pelargoniums, which differ from the ..."
4. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"The old race of large - flowered and large-clustered geraniums was known as Nosegay
... The ivy-leaved geraniums, the products of Pelargonium peltatum. Fig. ..."
5. Annual Report of the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society by Wisconsin State Horticultural Society (1884)
"Mrs. Loomis then read a paper on geraniums. In the discussion following, ...
He did not regard Pelare geraniums as nearly so desirable as geraniums proper. ..."
6. A Little Garden the Year Round: Wherein Much Joy was Found, Experience by Gardner Callahan Teall (1919)
"First of all it is well to have some definite idea of the various kinds of
geraniums and of their special characteristics. Horticulturists are coming more ..."
7. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1852)
"Of the new scarlet geraniums Mr. Thorburn has a fine collection, embracing Cottage
Maid; Tom Thumb's General; Cerise Unique, with a beautiful green leaf ..."