PAEONIA. 



0. tyrolensis is a neat small thing, about 4 inches high, with purple 

 flowers. 



It will be understood that, as with Astragalus, only the likeliest 

 surfaces of this large race have been skimmed, and that there may 

 well be other species discovered to be valuable when the family is 

 further described, and its tangles professionally unravelled. 



Pachylophus. See Oenothera. 



Pachysandra terminalis and P. procumbens are two not very 

 interesting or hardy Dowds, of mere foliage-interest, useful to cover 

 the ground in shady sheltered places, but of little charm. The former 

 has the merit of coming from Japan, and the vice of variegation. 



Pachystigma Canbyi and P. Myrsinites are two minute ever- 

 green shrubs, from Northern America, winch are valued for their 

 rarity only. They are small evergreen things, of insignificant flower, 

 and in habit suggesting the dwarfest of Euonymus, to which indeed 

 they are related. 



Paederota. Now see under Veronica. 



Paeonia. — This glorious race is so far from being ill-fitted to the 

 rock-garden that the Paeonies are in reality Qaeens of the stony 

 mountain places, as anyone will know who has seen P. officinalis 

 coyly lingering in the rocks of Steep Holmes Island, or P. peregrina 

 unfolding its huge Dog-roses of soft pink under the wooded rock-walls 

 and bluffs of Baldo, or P. japonica battling with the national Cypri- 

 pedium for the copsy slopes above Shoji. Let all those, then, that are 

 too wild and small to cope with the bloated beauties of the border, 

 have their acknowledged place in the rock-garden, in some fitting 

 corner of deep hollow or high cool ledge, where they should be planted 

 once and for all, and left for ever to grow larger and finer in deep and 

 very rich soil. They can all be raised from seed, but the method is 

 long, and limbs can easily be lopped in winter and spring from the 

 dormant masses. And see Appendix. 



P. albiflora is the mother of many a noble garden plant, yet with 

 white flowers and conspicuous loveliness of its own. 



P. anomala is P. lobata, q.v. 



P. arietina comes out of the East and has flowers of deep red, with 

 the bright purple leaves hairy on the under-side. 



P. banatica is much taller and pink, from Eastern Europe. But 



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