. Lawns and gardens. How to plant and beautify the home lot, the pleasure ground and garden . with pinnate leaves and handsome white flowerswith a yellow centre. Showy in masses in moist positionsamong rocks. Propagated from seeds in spring. Cranesbill, Geranium.—Two or three of the wild speciesof Europe are very ornamental and floriferous plants. Themeadow cranesbill (6r. prateme) forms a bushy plant two-three feet high, with rounded, seven-parted leaves andpretty, large, violet-blue flowers in loose corymbs. Theblood-red cranesbill (G. sanguinevm) is a spreading herbwith five- or seven-parte
. Lawns and gardens. How to plant and beautify the home lot, the pleasure ground and garden . with pinnate leaves and handsome white flowerswith a yellow centre. Showy in masses in moist positionsamong rocks. Propagated from seeds in spring. Cranesbill, Geranium.—Two or three of the wild speciesof Europe are very ornamental and floriferous plants. Themeadow cranesbill (6r. prateme) forms a bushy plant two-three feet high, with rounded, seven-parted leaves andpretty, large, violet-blue flowers in loose corymbs. Theblood-red cranesbill (G. sanguinevm) is a spreading herbwith five- or seven-parted leaves. Flowers on axillarypeduncles, large crimson. This is the finest hardy plant ofthe genus. The wood cranesbill (G. sijlvaticum) is almostsimilar in habit to the preceding kiuds. The flowers arepurple with conspicuous crimson veins. All these are finefor rockeries in open woods and shrubberies, or on grassybanks of rivers and lakes, in sunny or half-shady posi-tions. All thrive best in rich soil. The silvery cranesbill(G. argenteum) is a neat little Alpine plant with almost pel-. 3o4 Ifoerbaceous plants. tate, much-divided leaves of silky, silvery appearance audlarge, pale-red flowers. Grows three or four inches highonly. Sunny positions in rockeries. Storksbill, Erodium.—There are several very neat rockplants of this genus all much dwarfer than the best are E. rnacradenum with pale lilac or purpleflowers and pinnate leaves; E. Manescavi, also with pin-nate leaves and blight purplish flowers in umbels; with pinuatifid leaves and purple flowers in largeumbels. All do best in sunny positions in rich and lightsoil. Indian Cress, TropoRolum majus.—A rapid growingclimber with rounded, peltate leaves on long petioles andshowy, axillary flowers, yellow, scarlet, crimson, or deepcarmine. The dwarf varieties known under the name ofnan urn are best for beds and borders. All are very desirableplants for sunny positions. They look well in a border neart
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