COMMON GAEDEN FLOWEES. 



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Geum coccinecu. 



a rather common native plant, tut it has two double G. sanguimum, the Bloody CranesbiU, the name ref er- 



varieties, the blue and the white, and both are very ring to the blood-coloured or crimson flowers, and ii 



handsome, and well deserving a place in the garden. would be appropriate also to the purplish-red colour 



They do weU in good garden soil, and can be in- which the whole plant often assumes after flowering. 



oreased by division of the roots. Then there is This is a native species, forming very neat and 



