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sorts, while A. spinosum, which makes a branching woody 
shrub, has white flowers. 
ANTENNARIA dioica tomentosa is a particularly useful 
plant for carpeting the ground under Irises, Anthericums, 
or any flowers of stiff erect growth. Its foliage is silvery 
white, and it spreads rapidly in almost any kind of soil. 
There are a few other Antennarias in cultivation, but this 
is probably the most serviceable. 
ANTHEMIS.—The beauty of some of the dwarf Anthemis 
rests in their silver leaves and downy stems. They have 
yellow or white daisy-like flowers, and are of very easy 
culture, especially suitable for chalky soils. 
ANTHERICUM.—These elegant, lily-like plants, with erect 
branching spikes of glistening white flowers, are included 
because they are never so beautifully effective as when 
thinly distributed over an area of ground carpeted with 
some close-growing plant with dark foliage, and such 
combinations are delightful either on the rockery or in a 
bed of alpine plants. The Acznas, Arenaria balearica, 
some of the prostrate Veronicas or Campanulas, make 
excellent carpets for Anthericums to grow through. All 
that is necessary is to plant young crowns about 1} feet 
or 2 feet apart in deeply dug soil and intersperse small 
pieces of the carpeting subject. A. liliago, and its form 
major, A. ramosum, and ramosum Renarni, are all good, 
while there are plants commonly named A. liliastrum 
which botanists tell us should be called Paradisia liliastrum 
and A. Hookeri, otherwise Bulbinella Hookeri, which are 
equally beautiful by whatever name they are called. 
AguiLeciA.—The whole family of Aquilegias may be 
