SCORZONERA. 



witch-like in effect. They may bo planted in rough and rather shady 

 corners of no high importance. Among the species, all to be raised 

 from Beed, are 8c. carniolica, Sc. japonica, Sc. tangutica, and Sc. lurida. 



Scorzonera. — In this race of the Salsifies two species only are 

 of special merit (if two they are indeed). Theso are S. rosea, and 

 £. purpurea. The former is a rare but locally abundant beauty of the 

 Southern limestones, in open meadows, making tufts of grassy narrow 

 green foliage, from which stand up, all the summer through, delicate 

 stems of 6 inches or so, each carrying one erect Dandelion of soft clear 

 pink. S. purpurea, of the Eastern ranges, heightens its stature to 

 8 inches, and its colour is of a more burning carmine rose. And, if a 

 contrast be wanted with these, there is S. austriaca, similar in stature 

 to the last, but with blossoms of brilliant gold. These are all easy of 

 culture in any open warm place in light soil deep enough for their 

 abysmally long tap-roots ; but they are apt to slip gradually away, and 

 their best effects would be got by planting them in broad masses, 

 associated with Campanula rotundifolia in one of its forms. Seed. 



Scrophularia. — None of these are really worthy of cultivation, 

 so far as t he race is likely to be generally known. S. Hoppei in the Alps, 

 however, has a certain quamtness, attaining 18 inches or 2 feet, with 

 feathered green foliage, and multitudinous ininute helmets of hot 

 blackish brown, with golden anthers. Any stony poor place would be 

 suitable for sowing the seed of this straight out, and making no more 

 fuss with it. 



Scutellaria. — These Labiates are all of ready culture in open warm 

 corners in light soil ; and their whorled sprays of largish helmet ed 

 long flowers in shades of blue and pink and white have a value of their 

 own through the late summer and autumn, even if their wearers, like 

 so many of the family, are rather wanting in elegance of deportment. 

 C. alpina is a really handsome plant, for example, of floppish rather 

 square stems, and large whorled heads of violet hoods and white lips ; 

 it may be seen in special abundance and very fine form on the wayside 

 rocks at the summit of the Mont Cenis Pass, &c. ; there is a roseate 

 variety sometimes called S. lupulina or S. lup. bicolor ; as well as an 

 albino. The effect of the plant is that of some generously glorified 

 and relaxed and enlarged floundering Brunella. S. baicalensis is the 

 same thing as S. macrantha, near the last but more erect, with rounder 

 a and stems of 18 inches, and flowers of clear blue. S. oriental is 

 is minutely dwarf, about 2 inches high, with flowers of yellow and gold ; 

 S. ru; ains 8 inches, and has violet helmets, while S. japonica 



has the Bame height, but flowers of dark purple. S. minor is no taller 

 than these last, w it li pink blossoms, but S. pcrcgrina rises to 15 inches or 



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