TRILLIUM. 



g in multitudes from sol . 1 with the greedy runners of 



bamboo that those who know th ..t race will realise how httle 



moisture or richness is there left in the ground for the poor Wood- 

 lilies, which yet contrive from season to season to make those sere 

 brakes look as if drifted snow were still occupying the ground beneath. 



T. acuminatum has large flowers of inferior greenish white on its 

 8-inch and very amply-trefoik-d stem in April. 



T. cemuutn hae i especial breadth., and the stalks only 



attain 6 inches or so. while the rose-white flowers have wavy edges to 

 the three petals. 



T. declinatum has the whole habit of T. erectum, and the stalked 

 flower. But the blossom is white, and horizontally borne, instead of 

 shamelessly erect as in the uglier species. 



T. discolor =T. senile Wrayi. 



T. erectum is not only ugly, but stinks. It grows 10 inches high, and 

 above the dark full foliage the flowers of diriy brown stand brazenly 

 up on a foot-stalk in April. There are also forms with white flowers, 

 g on towards T. declinatam. 



T. eryfkrocarpum=T. undxO.o.tum. q.v. 



T. grand iflorum is the best known and best beloved of the lot, 

 a plant unsurpassable anywhere for heart mess of habit, charm of 

 manner, and refulgent purity of bloom. In any cool rich soil it will 

 grow and spread from the solid fat knops of its root, sending up 

 fleshy stems of 10 inches in abundance, set with the unvarying trefoil 

 of ample lustrous emerald-green smooth Leaves, and topped by the 

 single blossom of especial size, especial fullness of the three petals, and 

 •f pure ribbed whiteness, that often fades to a serene 

 pink, and in one form is even of a serene pink from birth to death. It 

 unfurls in the fir^t days of June, or the last of May, and at the 

 sight of it in old masses the heart of the beholder opens and shuts 

 like Mrs. Caudle's when she saw a rose. It wants no more than the 

 treatment of th ;;nd should be planted everywhere 



by the thousand, and made a wild weed ; its only fault being that its 

 y and goodness attract as much love (though of the 

 cupboard variety only) from slugs and mice as from gardeners. 



atom (if, indeed, this last be truly distinct), are 



minute tiny gems for choicer treatment in a more prominent shelf of 



the cool rock-work; they only igh or less, and 



large flowers in May of dazzling whiteness, carved from the 



snows by which ing, and from whose melting tears they rein- 



r e its vanished purity in their blossoms. 



T. petiolatum is twice the height, with white flowers that do not, 



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