Of such plants Delphinium montanum is one of the 

 handsomest. It grows 5 or 6 feet high, it is covered with 

 soft green down, and its flowers, which are a pale blue, are 

 compactly arranged in simple or branched racemes, some- 

 times as much as two feet long. Its roots are perennial, and 

 it produces seeds abundantly. 



Its native country is the Alps of central Europe. De 

 Candolle says it inhabits the vallies of mountains nearly as 

 high up as the limits of trees; as in the valley of Eynes in 

 the Pyrenees, on the Alps of Provence and Switzerland, and 

 in the Appennines. Haller speaks of it as extremely common 

 on the mountains of Switzerland, especially on Mounts La 

 Varaz and Enzeindu, Lioson, Taveyanaz, Prapioz, Audon, 

 and elsewhere. 



With us it is a hardy perennial, growing vigorously 

 among bushes, and flowering in August. The accompanying 

 drawing was made in the garden of the Horticultural 

 Society. 



