IRISH GARDENING. 



garden and ample means may grow the best of 

 every kind, tall, medium, and dwarf. AVhere, 

 liowever, space is limited and means restricted, 

 it will be necessary to select those plants of 

 medium height which are also useful for cutting 

 and dwarfer sorts for edging. 



The following is a list of useful plants of 

 medium height, say from 2 to 4 feet : — 



Achillea ptarmica Perry's Variety, Alstroe- 

 meria aurantiaca, Anemone japonica, both pink 

 and pure white varieties; Aquilegias of various 

 colours and with long spurs; Aster (Michael- 

 mas Daisies) Desire, elegans, acris, viminalis, 

 Freedom, ic, small-flowered varieties forming 

 lovely sprays ; A. amellus roseus, A. amellus 

 Beauty of Honsdoi-ff, A. amellus Chas. Davis, 

 A amellus Fleuve Bleu, &c. ; Campanuhi lati- 

 folia. Campanula persicifolia Moerheimi, Cam- 

 panula percisifolia, Newry Giant; Catananche 

 c(jerulea, Chrysanthemum maximum, Mrs. J. 

 Tersteeg, and Mrs. Chas. Lowthian Bell, Del- 

 phinium Belladonna and its double variety, 

 I )elphinium Persimmon, D. Mrs. Thompson, 

 Doronicum plantagineum exeelsum, useful for 

 early flowering; Piryngium planum and E. 

 Oliverianum, pretty species of Sea Holly, (Tvp- 

 sophila paniculata and its double variety so 

 useful for cutting; Helenium autumnale pumi- 

 lurn, a dwarf and free flowering Sneeze-weed; 

 Hemerocallis flava, a pretty Day Lily; Inula 

 glandulosa, with large yellow flowers; Iris ger- 

 manica Kharput, Iris floi'entina. Iris Iris King, 

 \. Mrs. Darwin, I. -Jacquininiana, I. Black 

 Prince, I. Gracchus, I. pallida Her Majesty, 

 1. p. Edouard Michel and I. p. Queen of Ma\ . 



Kuiphofia corallina, Kniphofia inifa, and 

 Kni|)liofia Mac()\\"ani are pi'ottv dwarf " T(jrcli 

 Lilies," 



Lupinus polyphyllus blue, pink and white, 

 are valuable in early summer, as also is the 

 flouble variety of Lychnis Alba, while the 

 scarlet Lychnis clialcedonica is one of the most 

 brilliant flowers in the garden ; Lychnis coro- 

 naria, the Crown Champion, is useful in form- 

 ing a bi-ight })atch of colour. Monarda didyma, 

 the ■' Jiergamot " is a beautiful plant in moist 

 soil, while the varieties of Paeonies are endless, 

 and all of great beauty. Phloxes provide some 

 of the finest effects possible in aiitiimii, wliih' 

 in early summer Pyrethrums are delight ful in 

 pink, white, red, and yellow, and both singl ■ 

 and double varieties are available, liudbeckia 

 speciosa is a charming plant, as also is Salvia 

 nemorosa, Sidalacea Candida, white, and S. 

 Posy Gem are effective, and Solidago Gattingeri 

 is useful in autumn. 



The hybrid Verbascums, Cale. Ionia, A. M. 

 liurnie, Cupreum, Lewanika, and densiflorum 

 are all in the first rank of herbaceous plants, as 

 also are Veronica longifolia and V. virj/inica. 



Scabiosa causasica Perfecta is useful alike in 

 the garden and for cutting, as also are the Hen- 

 cheras, of which there are many varieties, pink, 

 i-ed and white. 



Herbaceous Plants which will grow 

 in Shade. 



OccASioN.VLiA' we are asked if there is anything 

 that will grow in a shaded garden. 



If the soil is fairly good, or if it can be made 

 so, there are many herbaceous plants that will 

 do quite well. Assuming that some trouble is 

 taken in digging and cidtivating the soil and 

 adequate attention given the plants subse- 

 quently, the following will succeed: — Ajuga 

 reptans variegata, a pretty trailing plant useful 

 for margins. 



Anemone blanda and appenina, flowering in 

 spring, and A. japonica, flowering in autunm; 

 also the fine varieties of Anemone nemorosa, 

 Campanula latifolia, and the fine forms of Cam- 

 panvda persicifolia, the double Cardamine pra- 

 tensis, Corydalis bracteata and Corydalis lutea, 

 Dicentra spectabilis, Doronicum plantagineum, 

 Epimedium macranthum, Funkia lancifolia, F. 

 Sieboldiana, Gentiana asclepiadea, Christmas 

 and Lenten Poses, Iris sibiriea and varieties, 

 Lysimachia vulgaris, Mertensia pulmonai'ioides 

 Phloxes, I'linuda japonica, P. pulverulenta, 

 I'ultiionaria ai'vernense. Ranunculus aconiti- 

 folius, Trillium grandiflorum, and many fine 

 varieties of Trollius. 



Rhododendron ciliicalyx. 



This beautiful half-hardy Phododenih-on was 

 first inti'oduced by the French Missionai'v Abbe 

 Delavay. He forwarded seeds collected in the 

 Vunnan district of China to the I'ai'is .Jardin de^ 

 Plantes. One of the seedlings i-aised was sent 

 to Kew in 1892. When 3 feet high the plant 

 flowered in May, 1900, and was figured for the 

 I'otanical Magazine tab. 7782. Since that date 

 it has grown to a shapely specimen |)lanted out 

 in the Himalayan section of llie I\'mi)erate 

 House, and is now 8 feet to 9 ieel in heiglit. 



In recent \ears Mr. George Forrest records 

 finding masses of fine plants, 6 feet to 8 feet 

 high, on the hills surrounding the Tengyuch 

 \'alley and in dry, rocky situations on the 

 eastern flank of the Tali liange, Western 

 Yunnan. Forrest's numbers ll.VJ and 751(5 

 were collected at 10,000 i,, 11,000 feet eleva- 

 tion. This is several thcnisand feet higher than 

 collected by the Abbt' Delavay, but probably 

 not sufficient for the plants to be grown outside 

 unless in the favoured parts of the south and 

 west. 



P. ciliicalyx is closely allied io Ihe Hima- 

 layan s};ecies P. [o)'niosuni. llotanieally it 



