528 KCELREUTERIA. THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. LANTANA. 



autumn it assumes a very effective 

 reddish tint. It should be sown in 

 April in a hot-bed, and afterwards 

 planted out in beds or borders. S. 

 Europe. 



KCELREUTERIA. K. paniculata is 

 a small tree, beautiful when in flower ; 

 the long divided leaves, elegant 

 throughout summer, in autumn die 

 off a rich yellow, and the yellow 

 flowers form large clusters over the 

 spreading mass of foliage. It is pic- 

 turesque, valuable for groups, is a 

 native of China, hardy, and thrives 

 in any good soil. 



A new variety, K. bipinnata, has 

 recently been introduced from China, 

 but it has not yet been established 

 sufficiently long in this country to 

 enable us to judge of its value. 



KLOKWITZIA AMABILIS. 



A Chinese summer-leafing bush said 

 to come from high elevations. The 

 flowers are somewhat like those of 

 Abelia. A promising shrub. 



KOROLKOWIA SEWERZOWL A 



singular-looking bulbous plant, allied 

 to and much resembling a Fritillary. 

 It grows from i foot to i| feet high, 

 and has broad glaucous leaves and 

 nodding flowers, greenish outside and 

 vinous purple within. A native of 

 the mountains of Turcomania, hardy 

 in our climate. Bulblets or seed. 



LABURNUM (Golden Rain}. 

 Flowering trees of Europe, of singular 

 beauty, quite hardy and vigorous in 

 our islands, and giving fine effects, all 

 the more so if placed with some care 

 as to position and surroundings. 



L. ADAMI. Is a graft-hybrid ; the same 

 tree, and even the same branch, bearing 

 racemes of both yellow and purple flowers, 

 and sometimes flowers of a dull purple. 

 Old trees of these are quaint and not with- 

 out beauty, though it is far from having 

 the effect of the natural species and their 

 varieties. 



L. ALPINUM (Alpine L.). A hardy tree, 

 native of the hill forests of France and 

 C. Europe, reaching a height of nearly 

 40 feet. The natural form is a very 

 beautiful tree, and from it varieties of the 

 highest value have been raised and in- 

 creased from time to time, among the 

 best Parkesi, Watereri, autumnalis, biferum 

 grandiflorum ; hirsutum, pendulum, Vossi. 

 The Alpine Laburnum and its best varie- 

 ties may be known from the other Euro- 

 pean species by its longer raceme, broader 

 and deeper green leaves, and later bloom. 

 Grown from seed it varies a good deal. 

 Some fine varieties came in that way. 



L. VULGARE (Common L.). A beautiful 

 flowering tree of mountain woods on cal- 

 careous soil, but growing freely in any 

 soil in our gardens, flowering densely and 

 earlier than the Alpine Laburnum, and, 

 like it, reaching almost tree-like stature 

 30 to 40 feet in the best conditions. It 

 has several varieties, among them Carlieri 

 intermedium, pendulum, semperflorens, and 

 quercifolium, and the inevitable worthless 

 variegated forms. 



L A C TU C A ( Blue Thistle) . M. 

 Plumieri is a native of the Pyrenees, 

 where it is 4 or 5 feet high, but in our 

 borders and in deep strong soils it is 

 frequently as much as 8 or 9 feet high. 

 Its foliage is beautifully varied in out- 

 line, and it should be planted in the 

 rougher parts of the wild garden, and 

 left to itself, as nothing seems to inter- 

 fere with its rapid growth. M. alpi- 

 num is a smaller plant, and the worst 

 weed ever got into the garden. Seed 

 or division. Syn. Mulgedium. Some 

 of the kinds are very difficult to get 

 rid of once planted in good garden 

 soil, and the place for them is the wild 

 garden. 



LAGURUS (Hare's-tail Grass). A 

 pretty annual grass, about i foot high, 

 L. ovatus having hare's-tail-like plumes, 

 useful for bouquets. It should be 

 sown in pots in August, wintered in 

 frames, and divided and transplanted 

 in spring, or sown in open ground in 

 April. Flowers from July to Sep- 

 tember, and is pretty in the flower 

 garden in large patches as a relief to 

 showy flowering things. 



LAMARCKIA. L. aurea is a small 

 hardy annual grass, with silky plumes, 

 becoming golden as they mature. It 

 is suitable for bouquets, and may be 

 dried for winter use. Seeds should be 

 sown in spring or autumn, in the open 

 border in light soil. S. Europe and 

 N. Africa. 



LAMIUM (Dead Nettle). Perennial 

 herbs of which there are a few plants 

 occasionally worth a place in poor 

 dry soils, where little else will grow 

 such as are found on dry banks or 

 beneath trees. L. garganicum, from 

 i to 1 1 feet high, has in summer whorls 

 of purplish blossoms. L. Orvala is 

 taller and has deep red flowers 

 in early summer. L. maculatum, a 

 native plant, has leaves blotched with 

 silvery- white . 



LANTANA. S. American plants, 

 usually grown in greenhouses and 



