-KRRATULA. 



and both these last can either be multiplied by seed, or by pieces 

 taken off the rambling shoots, which are much tighter and more 

 condensed in S. tyro!' 



Serratula. — These are tall-growing summer-blooming plants 



ntanrea. Forth troubling about except 8. coronata 



and S. atrijAicifolia. The first likes dampish shady places, and has 



with feathered foliage, and carrying la « 

 clusters of purple great Hard-he-ad flowers. The second is an astonisi.- 

 ing and remarkably ho ferring wanner and dry 



places. The lower leaves are heal arrow-barbed, and the 



y stems bear big horiz I or nodd ties, in late- 



summer, of so aust< . mbre a purple as to seem almost black 



aid I d silvery effect of the plant. 



Sheffieldia repens. 8 Samolus. 



Shortia uniflora an I S.galacifoi a the one to Japan, and 



the other to America. It is sadly difficult, as with most woodland 

 plants, to obtain sound and moving roots of these ; but when they 

 are acquired, the race will thrive in light rich vegetable soil, whether 

 in sun or shade — sun being recommended to ripen the redness of 

 galacifolia's foliage, while shade seems much more invariably indicated 

 Cor 8. uniflora. The former sits quiet in a wide tuft, with rounded 

 glossy leathern leaves on stiff stems, among which stand up the lovely 

 pearl-pale five-lobed bells in spring and early summer, lonely on their 

 stalks of 4 or 5 inch i is also a rose-pink form, and both the 



s and the variety a: oming rare in their native woods, 



where they grow in the light vegetable soil am ng the Galax which 

 so greatly on a smaller scale resemble in habit of clump and 

 leaf, though firmer and stiffer and thicker and more leathern. 



•V. uniflora fives far away in th woodlands of the Japanese 



Alps, and is a much more unquiet straggling wandering fairy, and 



therefore more diffieult to collect with adequate rootage. It is 



smaller in habit than 8. gakicifolia, too, with thinner leaves, much more 



than ever like a little .g out on their fine stems along the 



rambling branches, from which arise a profusion of flowers larger and 



lovelier than those of S. gakicifolia, in a warmer tone of pearly flesh, 



like awakening Galatea. It is undoubtedly a difficult thing to establish ; 



sound plants that have got over th' : of home-sickness should 



• procured, then put out in lig ole soil, with a 



hips and very loose | linage a foot or 18 inches below (it 



might even be well to give them a -pring-mattress of besoms and 



down, as if tl. frame-violets), under the 



fring' light-growing evergreen as Pin<" montana. And, 



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