VIOLA. 



V. splendida comes out of Southern Italy, and is a beautiful lax and 

 spreading ramper, after the way of a rather looser and more prostrate 

 V. corn uta which has reminiscences of V. gracilis. The handsome 

 Cornuta-flowers arc generously borne from the decumbent branches 

 on long foot -stalks through tho summer, and V. splendida is a pleasant 

 addition to the garden, though hardly satisfying the hopes aroused by 

 its name. There is also a really pretty cream-white form more justly 

 called V. eburnea, thus indicating an affinity with V. gracilis, whose 

 purples go to cream, while the bluer lilac of V. cornuta goes to a cold 

 paper-white. Cuttings should always be taken of V. splendida in 

 autumn, as, though it thrives and spreads quite readily in any 

 light, warm soil in summer, it is not always tolerant of raw, wet 

 winters. 



V. stagnina is a rank and whitened form of V. canina. q.v. 



V. Stoneana lives in the moist woods of America, and is notably hand- 

 some among the handsome lobed -leaved violets of the Xew World. 

 It makes clumps of foliage, cut into some three to nine segments, 

 and the big purple blossoms have an eye of denser darkness. 



V. striata has become well-diffused in cultivation, while so many 

 of its betters still linger in the wild woods of America. This is a rank 

 and straggling thing, of the leafy-stemmed group, abundant in foliage, 

 amid which, all the summer through, it emits quantities of rather 

 inconsiderable cream-white violets lined with purple. It is useful to 

 fill a cool place, but has not so much intrinsic merit as many a form of 

 V. canina and V. silvestris. 



V. suavis (V. tolosana and V. Beraudii) is an especially fragrant 

 white-eyed development of V. odorata. 



V. subvestita need not trouble our pulses from its far-off home in 

 the Rockies. 



V. sudetica is a large violet or white form of V. lulca, with the 

 petals often toothed. It can be half a foot or 18 inches high or long, 

 and may be seen principally in the Vosges. 



V. sulfur ea. See under V. odorata. 



V. Thibaudieri is a Japanese of no value. 



V. Thomasiana. See under V. hi/la. 



V. triloba shades in and out of V. sororia. Sometimes the leaves 

 are undivided, sometimes they have three or even five deep lobes. 

 They are of sombre purple at first, but as the deep violet violets, paler 

 on tho reverse, begin to hover over the clump, the foliage assumes 

 a tone of yellowish green. 



V. uliginosa is but a dim little marsh violet of the far North. 



V. unijlora, in tho wilds of Siberia, bears small golden flowers in tho 



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