370 Iberbaceous plants* 



with a very long tube. The leaves are large, lanceolate, 

 and appear in spring. There are several varieties with 

 white, violet, purple, and double flowers. Besides this, 

 which is the common species, there are several other very 

 desirable kinds. C. speciosum is the largest of these; 

 flowers crimson or purple with a white throat; leaves a 

 couple of inches wide and a foot long. C. alpinum, a small 

 species with rosy-red flowers, and C. montanum, a spring- 

 flowering kind with lilac flowers, are nice plants for a 

 rockery. The others delight in a rich and moist soil, may 

 be naturalized on a lawn or in low places in a rockery or 

 open woods. The corms which are quite large should be 

 planted twice as deep as crocus. 



Wake Robin, Trillium. Dwarf, tuberous-rooted wood- 

 land plants flowering in early spring. Leaves three in a 

 whorl about the middle of the stem ; flow- 

 ers solitary, erect or nodding. The best are : 

 T. grandiflorum, stem a foot high or more ; 

 leaves sessile, rhombic-ovate, four inches long, 

 more or less ; flowers three inches across, pure 

 white, changing into a faint rose-color. Very 

 fine. T. erectum, purple birth wort ; smaller 

 WOOD LILY (TRIL- than the preceding kind; flowers dark dull 



LIUM GRANDIFLO- , m ^ ^ f ' 1 



RUM). purple. T. mvale, stem three to four inches 



high, leaves ovate-obtuse ; flowers pure white, two inches 

 across. A fine early-flowering species of moist ground. 

 T. eryikrocarpum, painted wood lily ; stem a foot high ; 

 leaves large, ovate; flowers smaller, white, striped inside 

 with pink. All grow in rather moist ground in shady posi- 

 tions and prefer a rich vegetable soil. Very handsome for 



