268 Iberbaceous plants, 



fine for naturalizing on shady hillsides, in thickets and 

 shrubberies. 



Meadow-Rue, Thalictrum. Several of the plants belong- 

 ing to this genus have exceedingly beautiful foliage and 

 grow to a considerable height ; they are chiefly woodland 

 and meadow plants. The rue anemone (T. anennonoides) 

 closely resembles the common wind-flower in habit and size. 

 The flowers are similar but of a purer white, appearing in 

 early spring in woods and thickets. The early meadow-rue 

 (T. dioicum) is a plant a foot or two high, with glaucous 

 leaves, and greenish-yellow flowers in compound panicles. 

 It grows in rocky woods and may easily be naturalized. 

 The tall meadow-rue (T. Cornuti) is the most important one 

 from an ornamental point of view. It grows to a heightof 

 six or eight feet, producing immense compound panicles of 

 white flowers, and is found in masses on the borders of rivers 

 or lakes, or in moist ground generally, where it is very effec- 

 tive. This species may be used with good effect in sunny 

 positions in beds and borders or in a low and moist place 

 in the rockery. 



Spring Adonis, Adonis vernalis. An early spring flower 

 with finely divided leaves and large yellow flowers. Habit 

 dwarf, tufted. Stems single. Beautiful in rockeries, in open 

 places in the shrubbery, and as a border plant. Should be 

 grown in masses in rich garden soil. The pheasant's eye 

 (A. cestivalis and A. autumnalis) flowers in summer and 

 autumn, grows about a foot high, has numerous, finely cut 

 leaves and small flowers of an intense scarlet-crimson color. 

 Should be sown early in spring in borders or rockeries. 



Crowfoot, Buttercup, Ranunculus. There are numerous 



