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INULA. 
Incarvillea.—Even if I. Delavayi be now too large and common 
for the rock-garden, there still remains its beautiful dwarf version 
I. grandiflora, a treasure of only 4 or 5 inches high, and twice as rich 
in brilliency and beauty; this need only have its great stout carrct 
established in deep, rich, light, and well-drained loam, there to go on 
for ever, blooming most gloriously in June with its wide golden- 
throated Allamandas of flaming rose borne singly on stems of 6 inches 
or so. Other species are incessantly being offered at advanced prices, 
with shrieks of proclamation, as I. brevipes and J. Bonvaloti, being in 
reality mere forms, and not improved forms, of J. grandiflora—not 
that in themselves they lack merit, but that on I. grandiflora nothing 
could improve, unless the seed (in which all of the race are profuse) 
should some day yield a snowy albino. Of other species, we have J. 
variabilis and I. Olgae; but these though pretty in ways wholly 
different from those of the Delavayi group—being feathery-leaved 
small bushes with clusters of diminished rosy trumpets—are both 
uncommon, and hardly ever satisfactory in England, dreading 
wet above all things, and craving for any amount of ripening sun. 
(I, Olgae is also I. Koopmannit.) As for I. lutea, this is a Delavayi of 
6 feet high, but with the same acanthoid splendour of leafage, darker, 
and magnified, and ample Allamandas that are more allamandic than 
ever, in being of clear pure yellow. However, it saves our nerves from 
the shock of such splendour by never revealing it, and has not once 
been known to flower in cultivation, though it grows like any cabbage. 
Inula.—Magnificent as the large Inulas may be, they are matter 
fitter for the wild garden or the border than for the select kingdom of 
the hill-children. Even of the big species, however, a word may be 
put in for the superb and not overweening J. Roylei, with its huge basal 
leaves, oval and crinkly and green, with stems of 2 feet or less, carrying 
flower-heads enormous even in proportion to the foliage—vast spider- 
rayed fringy golden suns in August and September. Then there is 
I. acaulis, truly appropriate for choicer foreground places, with blos- 
soms like those of I. salicina, sitting single and close all over a mat of 
oblong-leaved tuffets. This is a true alpine from the high places of 
Berytagh and the Cilician Taurus. And no less alpine is J. Montbretii 
from the same mountain of Berytagh (and others), with huge golden 
flowers as before, and stems of 4 inches or half a foot. Of similar 
stature is I. Aschersoni, half bushy at the base, but no less clothed in 
close-pressed silk ; and I. fragilis from Berytagh, with many almost 
stemless stems covered deep in fluff, each carrying from three to five 
noble blossoms nearly sitting on the tuft, from which they just emerge 
on the delicate stalk that the stout undelicate root-stock emits. All 
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