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IRISH GARDENING 



The Best of the Alliums. 



To many the vord Allium means Unions. Ia'cKs, 

 vr CJariir, and sometliing lo 1)6 avoided, fxeept in 

 tlu' Kitchen Gardon or the kitilien. Tlure uro. 

 iiowtver, many intort'stiMg and i)rtity sjx'cira of 

 Allium of vahn' for tlu- Kork Ciardtu. and wliicli 

 liavr with us no economii.' value, so far as is at 

 jirt'scut known. 



The Alliums b(>loni; to the Lily family, and are 

 fairly i-haraeteristie in ueueral api)i'araiu'e. mostly 

 l)ull)ous, many having slender, grass like, hollow 

 leaves; in others, they are flat and expaiuled, and 

 in some triangular. The flowers are produced in 

 lunbels. home at the end of a conunon stalk, more 

 or less long and stout, arcording to the si)ecies. 

 The flowers are six-parted, and the seeds small, 

 lilaik. and angular, unlike the flat, winged seeds 

 of the Lily. 



Cultivation presents no diffieulty, ordinary well- 

 drained soil and a sunny position suiting prae- 

 tieally all. Propagation may he effected hy seeds 

 or seiiaration of the hulhs. 



Among those of ornamental value, the following 

 may he reeonnnended : — 



AUimn <(vruJeum, from Sil)eria. witii angular 

 leaves, from 6 to 9 Inches long, and carrying 

 umhels of deep-blue flowers on steins some 12 to 

 ]5 inches high. . 



.4. ci/iincuin, a Chinese species, forming tufts of 

 line grass-like leaves, from among which arise the 

 flower-stems. al)Out 6 inches high, carrying umbels 

 of i)right-blue flowers. 



.1. hnnsuensc, also from China, has lately come 

 into gardens, though previously known for a good 

 many years. It is one of the grassy-leaved species, 

 more vigorous than the last-named, and bearing 

 in summer heads of blue flowers. 



A. kunifaiHriise iiails from Turkestan, and. un- 

 like the foregoing, has broad, flat, expanded 

 leaves, of a glaucous hue; the (lowers are white, 

 produced in large, dense undiels on scapes some 

 6 (»r 8 inches high. 



.4. Moly, a Southern European sjtecies, is oiu^ 

 of the best known, its l)right yellow flowers being 

 familiar in many gardens in early suuuuer. The 

 leaves are broadly lance-shaped, and the flower- 

 stems reach a height of 12 inches or over. 



.4. iKiKissiflortini, from .south-west Kuront>, is an 

 attractive Koik Carden plant, with drooi)ing 

 cln-sters of rosy jjurple flowers and lance-sha])ed 

 leaves, shorter than the flower scapes. 



.4. vedpolitdiiiiiii is an attractive white-flowered 

 species, about 15 iiu-hes or rather more in height, 

 and producing strap-shaped leaves around the 

 flower stems. 



.4. (ixtroirsLiiniuin, from Turkestan, is remark- 

 able in having lint few narrow, flat, glaucous 

 leaves, surmounted in summer by und)els of rose- 

 ooloured flowers, on stems some 'J to 12 inches 

 high. 



A. rosruin, from the Mediterranean region, is 

 attractive in its umbels of rose pink flowers, on 

 slender .stems, some 15 inches in height. The 

 narrow^ strap-sliajx'd leaves are shorter than the 

 flower stems. 



.4. scnesceiis rar. (jlaucum is more curious than 



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