An anxious amateur wishes to know how to winter Geraniums. I had a very
fine bed four years ago, and when frost set in was loth to lose them. I
dug them up, cut them down, shook the earth from the roots and hung them
up in the cellar all winter, and not one grew the following spring. I
tried the same method next fall, but did not cut them down until spring,
the same results followed, not one grew. Last fall I dug my bed up with
as much earth as possible, put them in boxes, gave them winter quarters
in the cellar, gave them a little water now and then. When planting time
came round I cut them down to about five inches, every one grew and made
a splendid show all summer, and at this moment (Oct. 12) are brilliant.
I brought them up and nursed them two or three weeks before planting
out; but the better plan for amateurs is to take cuttings at the end of
September, plant them in equal parts of turf, mould, and sand, nurse
carefully through the winter, and they will have much better plants for
bedding out in June.
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