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Delphinium—continucil. 
by root division, by cuttings, or by seeds. The first-named 
method is the best for perpetuating named varieties. The 
old plants should be cut down after flowering, when young 
growths will proceed from the base, and the whole may 
be lifted and carefully divided. Seeds of these often take 
a long time to germinate. Cuttings of the young shoots, 
taken off in either autumn or spring, root readily if in- 
serted singly in pots, and placed in a cold frame; these 
will flower the following season, at the same time as the 
offsets. Seeds of the annual species or varieties may be 
. sown out of doors, in a warm border, in April; or in pans, 
to be placed either in frames or outside. So soon as the 
plants are up, they should be pricked off into light, rich 
soil, where they will make rapid progress. There are 
numerous and beautiful hybrid varieties, with single, and 
also many with double, flowers; these are, for the most 
part, superior to the normal species, the most distinct of 
which are here described, all being perennials, except 
where otherwise stated. 
* Common Larkspur. 
or white, not n nf ep te рше, = sometimes 
panicle; spur 
in the 
. In many works on the British 
been confused with this. 
Jl. light blue, ч. ч 
"epiy-cu. 
THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
to purple. 
large. June and July. Z, lower _ 
t its ; D Tum 
Delphinium— continued. 
tripartite. A. біп. to lft. Thibet, 1864. А rare species, having 
avery strong musky odour. (B. M. 5461.) 
D. cardinale (cardinal)* ft. bright scarlet, with the petal limbs 
distinctly yellow ; disposed in spikes. August. Z. smooth, deeply 
Cae vent rather fleshy. Л. 3ft. to 4ft. California. A very 
ndsome annual species, remarkably well suited for borders or 
rockeries, with a good depth of rich soil to facilitate the develop- 
ment of its long fleshy roots. (B. M. 4887.) 
D. cardiopetalum  (heart-petalled). fl. dark bluish-violet ; 
racemes crowded. June. 1. smooth, ternate, with multifid seg- 
ments and linear lobes; those of the branches, as well as the 
lower bracts, are multifid. Stem erect, a little branched. A. lft. 
Pyrenees, 1818. Annual. b 
. cashmirianum (Kashmir).* /. lin. to Zin. across, with broad 
sepals, of a distinct pale blue colour, corymbose. July. l. tufted, . 
with long petioles, palmately-lobed, 4in. or more across, — 
Eroon slightly hairy. A. lft. to 14ft. Kashmir, 1875. (B. 
6189. 
. cheilanthum (lip-flowered). Д. dark blue; petals shorter 
than the calyx, two lower ones with obliquely-inflexed, ovate, 
entire limbs. June to September. J. five-parted, with oblon 
acuminated, sub-trifid, and somewhat toothed lobes. Stem ees 
branched. A, 2ft. to 3ft. Dahuria, 1819. (В. R. 473.) 
D. consolida (consolidated). fl., racemes rather few-flowered, — . 
loose „рез shorter than the bracts; petals all combined into *_ 
one body. Summer. i. dissected into narrow linear lobes, A, lft. : 
tolsft. Europe. Annual. 
D. dasy (hairy fruited).* Л. beautiful blue, with 
dark brown petals, rather large ; racemes simple, pubescent ; 
dicels thrice as long as the bracts. June. /. pubescent, five- 
obed ; lobes lanceolate, somewhat trifid, deeply toothed at the 
= ; petioles not dilated at the base. A. 4ft. to 6ft. Caucasus, 
D. elatum (tall). A synonym of D. exaltatum. 
FIG. 632. FLOWERING BRANCH or DELPHINIUM 'EXALTATUM. 
D. exaltatum (exalted)* Л. blue, or sometimes white, mi 
ized ; гас traight ; spur ht, length of the € 9 
siz racemes - — me "э" o bre 
apex; 
at th buse. h. Ht. to 6ft. North 
See Fig. 632, (В. М. 1791) 
