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IRISH GARDENING. 



PROSTTiANTHRRA LASIANTHOS, 



Phofo hij n. M. Pollock 



Trees and Shrubs. 

 Hydrangea akuorescexs grandi flora. 

 This handsome shrub flowered very freely in 

 August, and is certainly the most showy shrub 

 in flower at that time. The huge inflorescences 

 are composed entirely of sterile flowers — that is 

 to say, the bracts are highly developed at the 

 expense of the essential parts. A large specimen 

 is an object of much beauty and interest. Unlike 

 the common Hydrangea, this species should be 

 pruned back in spring, whereas the common 

 Hydrangea hortensis and its varieties should 

 not have the growths cut back in spring, as the 

 flowers are produced at the ends of the previous 

 year's shoots. 



H. paniculata and the variety grandiflora are 

 also autumn flowerers, and will make a good 

 succession to H. arborescens. These autumn- 

 flowering species are very valuable and add 

 much interest to the gardens. 



Trollius asiaticus. 



Flowering long after the most of the Globe 

 Flowers are over this handsome plant make 

 a fine show in July. At the time of Avriting— 

 viz., the nth of the month— it is full of rich 

 yellow flowers carried on long stalks well above 

 the foliage. In rich, fairly retentive soil it 

 would make a handsome border plant, but in 

 dry districts it is best in the bog g^arden, where 

 it looks well in conjunction with the various 

 forms of Iris spuria, Astflbes and Spiraeas. It 

 is easily raised from seeds. 



Pentstemon secundiflorus. 



This little known species is well suited for the 

 rock garden, where it flowers finely in July, 

 and thus helps considerably to prolong the 

 display in this section of the garden. The 

 flowers are produced in a close one-sided spike 

 and are pale rosy-lilac in colour, very pleasing 

 when seen in a group ; the leaves are smooth 

 and shining. The plant is a biennial, or best 

 treated as such, seeds being freely produced. 

 Sown in August or earlier if procurable they will 

 provide good plants for putting out next spring. 



Convolvulus cantabrica. 



A MOST attractive " Bindweed "" with nothing of 

 the weed about it, but not always surviving the 

 winter in this district. It has lived for some 

 years, however, in a sunny, dry position, and is 

 delightful in August and September, when the 

 trailing shoots are furnished with pretty rosy- 

 pink flowers. The stems and leaves are furnished 

 with luiirs, which give the plant a greyish 

 appearance. The leaves are quite narrow, 

 almost linear, and it has not the leafy appearance 

 of C. mauritanicus, to which it forms a good 

 companion, Dublin, 



Pjiewial IIe\ba\e. 

 From a photo at the Herb. Gioinuh, Aclare Manor 



