THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



glossy leaves and auxiliary flowers usually 

 in pairs. 



Solidago, Golden Rod has a large 

 number of varieties, the yellow flowers 

 of which appear in summer and autumn. 

 They range in height from six inches to 

 6 feet, and present considerable vari- 

 ations in foliage and flowers. They 

 are very brilliant, " like flaming swords 

 of fire," and are useful for cutting. The 

 fine hairs of some of them irritate the 

 skin, which probably accounts for their 

 being mistakenly considered poisonous. 



Tiarella cordifolia, Foam Flower, 

 False Mitre-Wort, May, 6-12 in., is very 

 pretty, with maple-like radical leaves 

 and scapes with racemes of white, star- 

 shaped flowers. It is fine in masses 

 and is said to be good for forcing. 



Trillium, Wood Lily, Wake Robin, 

 May, I ft., has a tuberous root, three 

 leaves and a single flower with the parts 

 in three's. There are several varieties 

 with white to purple flowers. They are 

 very attractive in the border and easily 

 grown. The shoots come up rather 



late in spring with the flower bud al- 

 ready formed. It soon opens and 

 after flowering they die away, so that 

 they may Le easily lost in digging the 

 border. 



Vicia cracca, Tufted Vetch, July, i}i 

 ft., is a pretty clinging plant with pin- 

 nate leaves of 20 to 24 leaflets, and the 

 leaf stable prolonged into a tendril. 

 The flowers are blue turning to purple, 

 in a dense, one-sided raceme. 



Viola, Violet, has many varieties, 

 among which Violet blanda. Sweet 

 White Violet, Viola palmata, Common 

 Blue Violet and Viola pubescens, Downy 

 Yellow Violet are well known spring 

 bloomers, easily grown and attractive. 



Viola Canadensis, Canada Violet is 

 particularly valuable. It is a stemmed 

 violet, about a foot high and flowers 

 most of the summer. The petals are 

 purple outside and white within and it 

 has heart-shaped, pointed leaves. 



Chas. Y. Moore 



Bra7npton Ont. 



Daffodils for Pots. — There are a 

 hundred varieties of dafTodils good 

 enough and distinct enough to grow 

 and flower in pots, and their cultivation 

 is of the very simplest. Pot them up, 

 four, five, six or more bulbs in a pot, 

 according to size, during August or 

 September, and stand them in any 

 convenient spot. They need not 

 necessarily be kept covered nor dark- 

 ened, as they will fill the pots with roots 



in any case. Place the lot which is to 

 flower first in a temperature of fifty-five 

 to sixty degrees early in December, and 

 they will open during January, while by 

 moving other batches in succession, the 

 display may be kept up for three or four 

 months, and it never need be monoton- 

 ous if a wise selection is made and every 

 batch consists of a different variety. — 

 Garden and Farm. 



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