222 ALPINE FLOWERS. Part 11. 



plants on rockwork. It loves a firm, sandy, and well-drained 

 soil, and should, as a rule, be placed near and somewhat below, 

 the eye, if the rockwork be an extensive one, as, though the 

 plant is of a high, it is not of a conspicuous, order of beauty. 

 Increased freely by seeds. 



GEKANIUM CINEEETJM.— G;'?)' Cranesbill. 



A BEAUTIFUL dwarf plant, with five- or seven-parted leaves, 

 clothed with a shghtly glaucous pubescence, and bearing very 

 large and handsome pale pinkish flowers, veined with red. A 

 . native of the Pyrenees, two to five or six inches high, grows 

 freely on rockwork, and is easily propagated by seeds ; but it 

 is as yet comparatively rare in our gardens. Grown into strong 

 tufts on good sandy soils, it forms a very attractive ornament 

 for the front of the mixed border. On rockwork it is pecuharly 

 at home, and is fitted for association with the choicest kinds. 

 Where alpine plants are grown for exhibition, it and the Silvery 

 Geranium are among the best plants that can be used, both 

 growing freely in pots or pans. It flowers and seeds abundantly, 

 and may be easily raised from seed. 



GERANIUM -iSAC-BJOSSaZXnB..— Long-rooted G. 



A DWARF and distinct species, with large thick stems, and leaves 

 in five divisions, each being deeply and irregularly lobed. The 

 surface of the leaves is sparsely clothed with very short colour- 

 less hairs, and the margins on both sides are of a reddish- 

 brown colour ; calyx of a dull red and almost round ; the 

 flowers of a bright purple, freely produced when the plant is 

 grown on light soil. It is suitable as a border-plant on light 

 soil, seldom grows more than a foot high, is easily increased 

 by seeds or division, flowers from May to July, and comes 

 from Italy and Southern Europe. As it flowers very freely 

 when in warm, rather poor, and very sandy soil, it is worthy 

 of a place among the stronger and more robust plants on the 

 lower and rougher flanks of rockwork. 



GERANIUM SANaxnNEJnsS.~£loocly Cranesbill. 



A NATIVE species, forming very neat and somewhat spreading 

 close tufts, from one to two feet high, the leaves cut into five or 



