a rather common native plant, but it has two double 

 varieties, the blue and the white, and both are very 

 handsome, and well deserving a place in the garden. 

 They do well in good garden soil, and can be in- 

 creased by division of the roots. Then there is 



G. sanguineum, the Bloody Cranesbill, the name refer- 

 ring to the blood-coloured or crimson flowers, and it 

 would be appropriate also to the purplish-red colour 

 which the whole plant often assumes after flowering. 

 This is a native species, forming very neat and 



