GERANIUM. 
them, there will always be, at that dividing point, a pair of very large 
and broadly-oval reddish bracts or leaflets, fusing together at their meet- 
ing-point on the stalk, to which they then form a sort of short sheath. 
And these are to be seen im no other Geranium. The species comes 
from bushy places on the Himalaya, and in cultivation the one form 
or sub-species to be reckoned with is that gem called Buzton’s variety, 
which is a Geranium of extreme charm and value, decumbent and 
almost a match in habit for G. lancastriense, but with larger, thicker 
foliage, not unlike that of a condensed and diminished G, pratense, 
with a white mark between their lobes, and often white marblings on 
their surface ; while the flowers, which appear through late summer 
far on into autumn towards winter, are of the most imperial size, and 
in the best forms (for it varies a little from seed) of glorious violet- 
blue with a clear, broad eye of white. This should be grown from 
cuttings, as well as from seed, and it should have a choice and shel- 
tered corner in good soil, for it is well worthy of the highest favour, and 
is not always perfectly resistent if the winter be specially raw, or the 
plant’s position too exposed. 
G. Weberbauerianum is a dainty little Peruvian species, with tufts 
of small, scalloped, rounded leaves, standing up on thread-fine stems 
of about 3 inches, among which, and surpassing them, appear other 
fine stems carrying delicate veined flowers of white. This also should 
have a choice and forward place, being a plant that does not run, 
but remains a neat and concise mass from the woody root. (This 
description also roughly fits G. Webbianum of gardens—a variety of 
an Indian species.) 
G. Weddellii takes us back to the high land of longing where G. 
nivale also dwells, For it is on Sorata in the Bolivian Andes, at 
12,500 feet, that will be found this gleaming beauty, being the perfect 
twin of G. nivale, but that the great white cups inserted all over the 
silken-silver cushions are rayed with colour instead of being purely 
snowy, while the packed leaves are slightly smaller, only about three- 
quarters of an inch across. So here most worthily ends the complete 
list, to date, of the best among the small-growing Geraniums, of 
which indeed, as well as of the big ones, there are hundreds more 
in every country, climate, and situation—the foregoing choice having 
shown that in their race we have indeed all the world to pick from, 
and that if Observation with extended view surveys mankind from 
China to Peru, she will also incidentally be embracing in her gaze an 
almost equal diversity of Geraniums, and an almost equal diversity of 
merit in them also, from the weeds and glories of the tropics to the 
weeds and glories of the Alps. 
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