TAXAKAEA RADICANS. 



even ry in any sunny place in open soil. Most, however. 



are too large in habit for the rock-garden, and not good enough for any 

 other. Among the smaller kinds, however, that are useful on hot 

 banks of poor dry ground is T. adenanthum, a novelty from China, 

 -with spreading neat masses of fern-fine silky-white leaves, emitting 

 a profusion of golden knops. And other small-growing species of 

 more or less merit are T. nivak, which is specially white in the leaf, an-1 

 only 6 inches high ; T. argenieum, and T. Kotsehyi. They are, all of 

 them, neither more nor i . king than the Santolinas to which 



!y allied. But see Appendix. 



Tanakaea radicans is a m -t pleasant little Japanese plant for 

 light rich wood In a comfortable cool corner, where, if it is 



happy, it will soon throw out runners freely from its main tuft of 

 f ring. -d -looking elliptic-pointed toothed leaves, leathery and richly 

 green, from which ascend in summer stems of 6 niches, ending in loose 

 fluffy spires of white blooms like those of a miniature Spiraea. 



Taraxacum. — Dandelions are not desired, as a rule, in a rock- 

 garden. Without difficulty T. Paeheri and T '. alpinv.m from the Alps 

 may be cultivated for the sake of the hills they come from ; and with 

 still less difficulty may they be omitted. The common T. dens-leonis, 

 too, as it grows as a weed in the streets and waste places of Tokio, 

 has the interesting peculiarity of being white in the flower instead of 

 golden, while high up beside the gl Kasbek, between 8000 and 



11,000 feet, lives the only really brilliant Dandelion. This if T 

 porphyreum. with the usual habit, and flowers of medium size profusely 

 produced on stems of 4 i ches. But bhey are of intense violet-purple. 



Tchihatchewia isatidea. — The beauty born of this murmuring 

 sound has passed into bhe countenance of a rare monocarpic Crucifer 

 from sunny rocks of the Levant, which there forms ample fat rosettes, 

 and sends up stout and crowded pyramids a foot high or so. with large 

 flowers of delicate waxy pink that have exactly the sweetness of 

 Daphne Oneorum. In cultivation it has never done any good, but in 

 many experiments has always proved a niimp, and by now has 

 probably wholly passed away. In nature it must surely be extremely 

 beautiful and encouraging to see, but in the garden it evidently has 

 that sense of exile and consequent sullenness that is often found among 

 the alpine Thlaspids of « ba the giant cousin. It ought to be 



i in a sunny slope of the moraine. 



Tecophilaea Cyanocrocus?— X ., no. Le salesmen say 

 will, thia glori itian-blue Crocus from Chili is quite 



cultivation in England. 



Telekia, the more correct name of Buphthalmvm, q.v. 



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