298 Herbaceous plants, 



one to two feet high. Very beautiful in open woods or 

 shrubberies. The flowers are bright crimson. The fol- 

 lowing are fine for rockeries : 8. alpestris, a dwarf, tufted 

 Alpine plant growing six inches high, flowers white ; wild 

 pink (8. Pennsylvania), about as high as the preceding 

 kind; flowers pink, very numerous and beautiful; fine 

 for naturalizing in rocky places. The best annuals are the 

 numerous varieties of S. pendida] a dwarf trailing plant 

 with, originally, flesh-colored flowers. There are now 

 white, flesh-colored and rosy-red forms, with single or 

 double flowers. The variety compacta is especially useful 

 for summer-bedding. For this purpose the seeds must be 

 sown in autumn in a frame or greenhouse to be ready for 

 planting in spring. 



Soapwort, Saponaria officinalis. A tall and erect road- 

 side plant with oval and lanceolate leaves and showy white 

 flowers suffused with rose, in ample terminal clusters. May 

 be grown on rocky knolls or high banks of rivulets and 

 lakes. Saponaria ocymoides is a very attractive rock plant 

 of a dwarf, trailing habit with numerous light-red flowers all 

 summer. It may be sown very early in spring in the moist 

 soil in the crevices of rocks. 



Gypsophila, Gypsopliila paniculata. An elegant plant 

 with much-branched stems, linear-lanceolate leaves, and 

 compound panicles of small white flowers. Habit light 

 and airy. A fine plant for growing in rockeries. 



Mouse Ear, Cerastium arvense. A small, tufted plant, 

 common on sunny banks and road sides. Leaves mostly 

 linear. Flowers numerous, pure white. A conspicuous 

 plant when grown in dense masses in rockeries or among 



