42 GARDEN FLOWERS. 



A. a7idrosizmifoli2i7n (tutsan-leaved) ; hardy perennial ; 3 feet ; 

 flowers pink, in July ; North America ; 1688. A. ca7inabiiium 

 (hemp-like) ; hardy perennial ; 3 feet ; flowers yellowish, in July ; 

 North America ; 1699. A . hypericifoliuvi (hypericum-leaved) ; 

 hardy perennial ; 3 feet ; flowers white, in June ; North America ; 

 1758. A. Veiietu7?i (Venetian); hardy perennial ; 2 feet; flowers 

 white, in July; Adriatic Islands ; 1690. 



Aponogetox. [Fluviales.] Curious and elegant peren- 

 nial water-plants ; one or two require a stove temperature, 

 others a greenhouse. A. distachyon is easily grown and 

 flowered in the open air in summer, and may be preser\^ed 

 in a cellar during winter : the tender kinds in pots set into a 

 tank or tub. Soil, peat and loam. Propagated by seeds, 

 which should be sown in spring in the same kind of soil, 

 and the pots set under water : they also increase by offsets. 



A. distachyon (two-spiked); i foot; flowers white, in June; 

 Cape of Good Hope ; 1788. A. angustifolimn (narrow-leaved); 

 greenhouse aquatic ; i foot ; flowers white, in June ; Cape of 

 Good Hope ; 1788. A. juncifoliiivi {xM%\\-\^2i\^^) \ greenhouse 

 aquatic ; i foot ; flowers w^hite, in July ; 1847. 



Aquilegia. Columbine. [Ranunculaceae.] Handsome 

 hardy perennials. Common garden soil ; good turfy loam 

 for the choicer sorts. Propagated by seeds, or by division. 

 The seed of the common kinds may be sown in beds thinly 

 in May ; the young plants, when strong enough, planted out 

 six inches apart ever}^ way. If they are to bloom in beds, 

 they should be nine inches apart and eighteen inches from 

 row^ to row. When they bloom, pull out and destroy all the 

 single and ugly ones, and, if desirable, propagate the better 

 ones. The common Columbine has sported into a variety 

 of colors j and some of its double varieties are very beautiful. 



A. Alpitta (Alpine) ; hardy perennial ; i foot ; flowers blue, in 

 May ; Switzerland ; 1731. A. atropiirpiirea (dark purple) ; har- 

 dy perennial; i foot; flowers purple, in May; Siberia; 1827. 



