436 DAPHNIPHYLLUM. THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. DATURA. 



It is best to begin with little plants, and 

 it is easily raised from seed, thriving best 

 in calcareous soils. 



D. ODORA (Sweet Daphne). A fragrant 

 and beautiful kind, in mild and southern 

 districts hardy on the rock garden, usually 

 best on western aspects ; but in the north 

 a greenhouse plant. There are varieties 

 called alba, rubra, Mazeli, punctata. 

 Mazeli is, according to Max Leichtlin, 

 hardier than the older kind. Syn. D. 

 indica. China. 



D. PETRJEA (Syn. D. rupestris) (Rock 

 Garland Flower). A neat little shrub, 

 with erect shoots forming dense, compact 

 tufts, 2 inches high, often covered with 

 flowers of a soft-shaded pink, in clustered 

 heads. It is a mountain plant, growing 

 wild in fissures of limestone in peaty loam, 

 of slow growth, and it takes some years to 

 form a good tuft. It seems to thrive in 

 very stony and. peaty earth, with abund- 

 ance of white sand, and should be planted 

 in a well-drained but not a dry spot. 

 D. p. grandiflora is a much larger form, 

 well deserving its name. 



D. STRIATA (Fairy Garland Flower). 

 A hardy trailing kind, forming dense, 

 spreading masses, i to 3 feet across, in 

 June and July are covered with rosy- 

 purple scented flowers in clusters. The 

 spreading habit of this plant recommends 

 it for covering bare spots in the rock 

 garden. Alps. 



DAPHNIPHYLLUM. Evergreen 



shrubs of fine effect of foliage and little 

 beauty of flower. D. Glaucescens 

 grows well in the home counties so 

 far as tried, the leaves over 6 inches 

 long, and glaucous underneath, the 

 flowers small, in the autumn ; but the 

 habit is so fine wherever evergreens are 

 cared for that this will be worth grow- 

 ing, at least in the southern and 

 warmer counties. The other species 

 known is D. josoenses. It is a much 

 dwarfer plant, and is an under shrub 

 in the forests of Yezo. These plants 

 seem to be hardy enough in the 

 southern districts of Britain, and rich 

 as we are in evergreen plants in Britain, 

 these are distinct enough to take a 

 good place. 



DARLINGTONIA (Californian 

 Pitcher-plant). A most singular plant, 

 resembling the Sarracenias, but very 

 distinct ; the leaves of D. calif ornica 

 rise to a height of 2 feet or more, are 

 hollow, and form a curiously shaped 

 hood, from which hang two ribbon- 

 like appendages, the hood often a 

 crimson-red, and the flowers are almost 

 as curious. This remarkable plant is 

 found to grow in our climate if care 

 be taken with it, and it would be 



difficult to name a more interesting 

 plant for a sheltered bog garden. It 

 is less trouble out of doors than under 

 glass ; indeed, it only requires a 

 moderately wet bog in a light spongy 

 soil of fibrous peat and chopped 

 Sphagnum Moss. A place should be 

 selected by the side of a stream, or in any 

 moist place, and the plants should be 

 fully exposed to direct sunlight, but 

 sheltered from the cold winds of early 

 spring when they are throwing up 

 their young leaves. They require fre- 

 quent watering in dry seasons, unless 

 they are in a naturally wet spot. Seed. 



DATISCA (Bastard Hemp).D. 

 Cannabina is a tall and graceful her- 

 baceous perennial from 4 to 7 feet 

 high, the long stems clothed with large 

 pinnate leaves, yellowish-green flowers 

 appearing towards the end of summer. 

 The male plant is very strong and 

 graceful in habit ; the female remains 

 green much longer than the male ; 

 when it is laden with fruit, each shoot 

 droops gracefully, and the plant should 

 be included in any selection of hardy 

 plants of good form. Seed will be 

 found the best way to increase it, and 

 would secure plants of both sexes. 

 The border is not its place ; it is, above 

 most other plants, suited for the grassy 

 margin of an irregular shrubbery. 

 Himalayas. 



DATURA (Thorn Apple}. Natives 

 of Mexico and similar countries, none 

 are hardy, but owing to rapid growth 

 some succeed well if treated as half- 

 hardy annuals, and make effective 

 plants in a short season. The best 

 are : D. ceratocaula, from 2 to 3 feet 

 high, with large, scented, trumpet-like 

 flowers, often 6 inches in length, and 

 4 or 5 inches across, white, tinged with 

 violet-purple, expanding in the after- 

 noon and closing on the following 

 morning. D. fastuosa is a handsome 

 species, having white blossoms smaller 

 than the preceding ; there is a fine 

 variety of it with the tube of the 

 flower violet and the inside white. 

 The most striking forms of this species 

 bear "double" flowers, the primary 

 corolla having a second and sometimes 

 a third corolla arising from its tube, 

 all being perfectly regular in form, and 

 often being parti-coloured, as in the 

 single variety with violet flowers. D. 

 meteloides is a handsome Mexican plant, 

 called in gardens Wright's Datura. 

 Isolated specimens of it have a fine 

 aspect in sunny but sheltered nooks. 



