Thalia — TJialictrum — Tritoma. 20 1 



It is generally grown in the stove in this country. N. 

 America. 



*Thalictrum minus. — One of the most elegant- 

 leaved of our native plants, forming compact, roundish 

 bushes, from a foot to 18 ins. high, very symmetrical, and 

 of a slightly glaucous hue. It may be grown in any soil, 

 and requires only one little attention, namely, to pinch 

 off the slender flower-stems that appear in May and June. 

 Not alone in its aspect, as a little bushy tuft, does it 

 resemble the " Maidenhair Fern," as Adiantum cuneatum 

 is often called, but the leaves are almost pretty enough 

 to pass, when mingled with flowers, for those of the fern ; 

 they are also stirrer and more lasting than fern-leaves, and 

 are well suited for mingling with vases of flowers, etc. 

 There are probably several " forms " or varieties of this 

 plant. It would look very pretty isolated in large tufts 

 as an edging, or in borders, or in groups of dwarf subjects. 

 Easily increased by division. 



*The Tritomas. — So hardy, so magnificent in colour- 

 ing, and so fine in form are these plants, that we can no 

 more dispense with their use in the garden where beauty 

 of form as well as colour is to prevail, than we can with 

 the noble Pampas grass. They are more conspicuously 

 beautiful, when other things begin to succumb before the 

 gusts and heavy rains of autumn, than any plants which 

 flower in the bright days of midsummer. It is not alone 

 as component parts of large ribbon-borders and in such 

 positions that these grand plants are useful, but in almost 

 any part of the garden. Springing up as a bold, close 

 group on the green turf, and away from brilliant sur- 

 roundings, they are more effective than when associated 



