GERANIUM. 
ground-hugging tendencies of G. lancastriense, for which one of the 
loveliest of associations on rock-work is to get it in drifts, with Poten- 
iilla nepalensis Wilimottiae in deeper shades of hot rose, and cool 
clouds of china blue among them from Campanula Bellardit, or, even 
better, Campanula haylodgensis. 
G. sessiliflorum says that it is in cultivation, but the ugly little 
prostrate weed we have by no means answers to the description of 
G. sessiliflorum in the Alps of South America and Tasmania. For 
our treasure merely forms a mat of dowdy leafage, close beneath which 
sit huddling still dowdier little white flowers; whereas in its proper 
form the plant makes a great woody trunk, at the end of which it 
breaks into an immense rounded head of countless small white blos- 
soms, with leaves suggesting those of Sazifraga granulata, standing 
out all round on long stems with the oddest hen-and-chickens effect. 
G. soboliferum belongs to the bogs of North China and Korea, and 
is a handsome species with very finely-divided leaves, and violet 
flowers more than an inch across. Its rhizome often emits runners. 
G. subargenteum is recorded by Willkomm from the Pyrenees, and 
declared to be nearer to argentewm (which does not there occur) than 
to G. cinereum (which does) ; from which it differs in its neater habit 
and leaves clothed with silver on the under surface. 
G. Traversvi stands alone in its section, a really beautiful and dwarf 
silver-leaved thing from New Zealand, which proves hardy, and 
spreads heartily, and is most attractive with its tidy habit, all shimmer- 
ing with silk, and its multitudes of pretty rose-pink flowers on stems 
of a few inches. At least it is thus they are worn with us; there are 
other descriptions, and fancy names, such as G. T'raversii elegans, &c., 
which seem to mask a certain doubt of the plant’s true standing, a 
doubt which is not annihilated by the official description, which records 
the flowers of G. Traversii to be large and white, whereas in general 
experience, and in the words of catalogues, they are bright pink, and 
also (not-in the words of catalogues), a trifle small for the foliage-masses 
—which rather suggest, as a rough parallel, a trebled and silvery 
version of Hrodium corsicum. It is a species, in short, of cosy look 
and the most endearing rosy charm, to be treated with due regard to 
its provenance, and given a good warm slope to fill with its runners, 
of which some may be taken off and potted in autumn, lest winter 
wreak some harm to their parent with its wet. 
G. Wallichianum.—This name is the father of perplexity. There 
are so many usurpers of it that each catalogue usually contains two. 
The true species may, however, be known at a glance. If you look at 
the stems you will see that where the leaves and sprays break out from 
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