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I. DELAVAYI (Delavay's Trumpet 

 Flower). Vigorous and handsome per- 

 ennial, flowering in the second year from 

 seed sown in April. The dark green 

 leaves vary in length, and often reach 

 2 feet long, and are finely cut, fleshy, and 

 of a peculiar odour when handled. In 

 cold districts the fleshy root may be lifted 

 and stored like a Dahlia, but must be 

 covered with soil and not allowed to dry. 

 Well planted, the tubers gain force each 

 season, forming at last masses of five 

 or six flower-stems of about a yard high, 

 with ten to fifteen trumpet-shaped flowers 

 in a cluster, the lower ones drooping 

 loosely from the central mass. 



I. GRANDIFLORA. Of this the flowers are 

 larger than those of /. Delavayi, and the 

 habit of the plant is dwarfer, with shorter 

 leaves and rounded leaflets, while it 

 blooms, about a fortnight earlier. Its 

 root, large and fleshy, is less tuberous, 

 throwing a scanty rosette of leaves rather 

 more than a foot long, of deep shining 

 green, and in young plants prostrate, 

 arching when older. On a strong mature 

 plant they are nearly 4 inches across and 

 2 to 3 inches deep in the tube, the limb 

 being divided into four broad lobes of 

 soft rosy-carmine, deepening towards the 

 yellow tube, and relieved by handsome 

 white blotches in the throat. It is easily 

 raised and grown from seed in rich, free 

 soil ; seedlings take three or four years 

 to flower. 



I. OLG^E (Princess* Trumpet Flower). 

 A handsome perennial of shrubby habit, 

 and hardy in all but cold districts. Its 

 pretty cut leaves are borne upon long, 

 straggling stems of 4 or 5 feet, which 

 rather spoil its beauty. The tubular 

 flowers, about an inch long and wide, 

 are of a pretty pale pink, borne in 

 loose clusters upon very short stalks 

 during summer. Turkestan. 



I. VARIABILIS (Fern-leaved Trumpet 

 Flower). A shrubby perennial of fine 

 habit, hardy in light, warm soils, and in 

 mild districts. The flowers, borne upon 

 stems of about 2 feet, are an inch long and 

 of a beautiful light rose, with finely-cut 

 foliage of vivid green. It is beautiful for 

 several weeks during late summer and 

 early autumn. 



INDIGOFERA. Elegant shrubs of 

 medium or dwarf stature, so far as 

 known with us, natives of China and 

 Japan. Very little is known of their 

 garden value, though occasionally seen 

 as wall plants in mild districts. /. 

 Gerardiana is a pretty plant which 

 may be grown as a bush or against 

 a wall, which it clothes gracefully with 

 feathery leaves, towards the close of 

 summer, bearing small Pea-like bright 

 pink blooms. In certain districts it 

 may be well to give it protection in cold 

 winters if not against a wall, and the 



only attention it requires is close 

 pruning in early winter. The kinds 

 in cultivation some rare are /. Bun- 

 geana, decora, decora alba, Delavayi, 

 Dosua, Dosua minor, Gerardiana, Gerar- 

 diana alba, hebepetala, Kirilowii, macro- 

 stachya, pendula, reticulata, Roy lei. 

 For treatment we can only say warm 

 walls or sunny positions in open well- 

 drained soils. 



INULA. Perennials, few of which 

 are of high value for the garden. I. 

 Helenium (Elecampane], a vigorous 

 British plant, 3 or 4 feet high, with a 

 stout stem, large leaves, and yellow 



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flowers, is well suited for planting 

 with other large-leaved plants, or in 

 isolated specimens on rough slopes or 

 wild places, in good soil. /. Ocitlus 

 Christi grows i| to 2 feet high, and 

 bears orange flowers in summer. /. 

 salicina, montana, and glandulosa are 

 similar. Royleana, macracephala, gran- 

 diflora the finest kind, and its varie- 

 ties under various names. Seed or 

 division. 



IONOPSIDIUM (Violet Cress}. !, 

 acaule is a charming little Portuguese 

 annual about 2 inches high, whose 

 dense tufts of violet flowers spring up 

 freely where plants of it have existed 

 the pievious season. On the rock 

 garden, associated with even the 

 choicest of alpine plants, it holds its 

 own as regards beauty, never overruns 

 its neighbours, and is often happy sown 

 near pathways or rugged steps, growing 

 freely in such places ; indeed, it would 

 even flourish on a gravel walk. It 



