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ground. The seed should be sown in autumn or in early 

 spring. 



Blood-Root, Sanguinaria Canadensis. A handsome per- 

 ennial throwing up a solitary reniform leaf in spring, en- 

 closing the flower bud. Flower pure white, solitary, borne 

 on a slender scape. Beautiful for naturalizing in scattered 

 masses in shrubberies" and moist, rich woods. It will grow 

 well in a moist and half-shady position in the rockery. 



Plume Poppy, Bocconia cordata. This is a stately plant 

 from five to eight feet high, with single stems and rounded, 

 cordate-sinuate leaves. Flowers small, whitish, in ample 

 terminal panicles late in summer. Exceptionally ornamen- 

 tal as specimens on a lawn, fine for rockeries and borders. 

 Thrives well in ordinary garden soil in a sunny position. 



THE FUMITORY FAMILY. 



Bleeding Heart, Dicentra spectabilis. A well known 

 and popular border plant with much divided, deeply cut 

 leaves and rosy-pink, heart-shaped flowers in nodding ra- 

 cemes. Habit upright. Fine for beds and borders or 

 for large clumps on the lawn. A number of dwarf and 

 delicate woodland flowers belong to this genus ; the best 

 are : Dutchman's breeches (D. cucullaria), with white, 

 yellow-tipped flowers in short racemes and delicate decom- 

 pound leaves. Common in rocky woods among decaying 

 leaves. A very pretty species about six inches high is D. 

 eximia ; flowers are bright purple in short racemes on slen- 

 der, erect scapes about nine inches high ; segments of the 

 foliage broader and more robust than in the preceding 

 forms ; D. formosa, flowers bright red, in compound ra- 



