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with big, bright rose-pink flowers, who is very useful for 
a rough place, and whom I think of as Geranium 
armenum. Then there is an immense, glorious one 
with a short blooming period, during which it carries 
great heads of large, deep violet flowers. The leaves are 
downy and the growth like a tidy, large Pratense. 'This, 
to me, is Geranium ibericum, of which G. gymnocaulon 
is a frailer form. About Geranium Endressi 1 am in a 
stew. Have I mixed him up with armenum? Which is 
it I possess? Oh, I wish they’d flower quickly and 
make certain! Anyhow ‘ Endressi’ is neat and rose-red. 
As for wallichianum, I am almost beginning to hold Mrs. 
Prig’s heresy. I have bought him again and again; and 
now I doubt whether any one really possesses him. I 
have been sent bushy, blue Wallichianums, I have been 
sent floppy, magenta-pink Wallichianums, I have been 
sent so many different and mutually irreconcilable 
Wallichianums that my poor brain staggers as to the 
problem of deciding which is genuine, if any. All that I 
know is that Nicholson’s wallichtanum looks as pretty as 
his horrid bad drawing will allow, and that I have never 
possessed it. (Yes, I’ve now got it.) 
Our native G. pratense must not be admitted to the 
rock-garden. It grows obese; its development becomes 
rank, its flowers small and dull; and it seeds itself remorse- 
lessly everywhere. So it enjoys my misguided hospitality 
no longer. Its double form, and its various white, Silver 
Queen, and other fancy varieties, are interesting and rather 
pretty for an out-of-the-way place. Grandiflorum is a 
very superb plant, which is to all intents and purposes a 
pratense with the growth no bigger than usual, but the 
flower multiplied by two—a notable easy-going border 
plant, whose name and history are not quite clear. 
Phaeum, the rare native Dusky Cranesbill, with little 
blackish purple flowers, is all right for a remote place 
