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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 I 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 wallichianum 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. Grandijhrum 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 



