576 ' MYOSOTIS. 



THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



MYRRHIS. 



Europe and our own land, and of high 

 value and charming in all ways for 

 gardens. 



M. ALPESTRIS (Alpine Forget- me-Not). 

 A compact plant of the loveliest blue 

 flowers, thriving on the rock garden, in 

 moist gritty soil. It should be surrounded 



Myosotis alpestris. 



by half -buried pieces of sandstone. There 

 are various forms, some very dwarf, with 

 white and rose flowers. Princess Maud is 

 a robust variety with rich deep blue 

 flowers. 



M. AZORICA (Azorean Forget-me-Not). 

 A beautiful somewhat tender kind, with 

 dark blue blooms, 6 to 10 inches high, and, 

 coming from the extreme W. Azores, 

 will not survive except in warm corners 

 of the rock garden. It grows freely in 

 light soil, and may be raised from seed or 

 cuttings. Not easy to grow, and only 

 by raising from seed. 



M. DISSITIFLORA (Early Forget-me- 

 Not). Beautiful and early flowering, 6 

 to 12 inches high, with large handsome 

 flowers deep sky-blue, continuing till 

 midsummer. It is best in broad masses 

 in open spots of the rock garden, or 

 wherever spring flowers are much valued. 



M. PALUSTRIS. Although common in 

 wet ditches and by streams and canals 

 throughout Britain, M. palustris should 

 be grown in the garden among shrubs in 

 peat beds, or for edgings, or as a carpet 

 to taller subjects, in small beds or borders 

 in moist soil. There are forms of this, 

 one with white flowers, another with 

 larger flowers than the type, whilst one is 

 called semperflorens, from its long season 

 of. flowering. 



M. REHSTEINERI. One of the prettiest 

 Forget-me-Nots, an effective close-to-the- 

 ground creeper, practically forming a 

 dense cushion of blue for several weeks in 

 April and May. The plant thrives and 

 spreads like a mossy Saxifrage, but keeps 

 flat to the ground. 



M. SYLVATICA (Wood Forget-me-Not). 

 A beautiful woodland plant, and of great 

 value for the wild garden. It should be 

 abundant in a wild state by wood walks, 

 in copses, and sows itself freely in such 

 places. For the garden, sow seeds in beds 

 in August every year. Britain. Seed. 

 There are a white, a rose-coloured, and a 

 striped variety. 



MYRICA (Sweet Gale). The 

 Myricas, though not showy flowering 

 shrubs, are desirable on account of 

 their scented foliage. The native 

 Sweet Gale or Dutch Myrtle (M. Gale) 

 should be wherever sweet-smelling 

 plants are cared for. It is a thin 

 bush, 2 to 3 feet high, having fragrant 

 leaves. In a moist spot, such as a 

 bog, it spreads by underground shoots 

 and makes a large mass. 



M. CERIFERA (Wax Myrtle) and also 

 M. Pennsylvanica and Californica, N. 

 American species, are less common. The 

 last is a good evergreen of dense growth, 

 with fragrant leaves, green through the 

 winter. It is a vigorous plant, especially 

 in light soils, and is hardy, but is little 

 known outside botanical collections. The 

 Wax Myrtle is met with in old gardens, 

 where it was planted for its spicy foliage. 

 I find our native Sweet Gale free and 

 vigorous in stiff soils where few things 

 grow well. 



M. (COMPTONIA) ASPLENIFOLIA (Sweet 



Fern). A quaint little shrub 2 to 3 feet 

 high, with Fern-like long, cut into rounded 

 lobes, and aromatic leaves. It spreads 

 freely in sandy soils, and may be increased 

 by layers, suckers, or seeds. A pretty 

 plant in the sandy woods of many other 

 parts of N. America. In gardens its 

 place is among small shrubs and on the 

 margins of peat beds. 



MYRICARIA (German Tamarisk}. 

 M. germanica is an elegant shrub, 

 hardly differing from the common 

 Tamarisk of our sea - coasts, with 

 feathery foliage and many long plume- 

 like clusters of small pink flowers. 

 It grows 6 or 8 feet high in warm 

 sandy soils, and, like the true Tamarisk, 

 is a good shrub for dry banks where 

 few shrubs would flourish. 



MYRRHIS (Sweet Cicely}. M. 

 odorata is a graceful native plant, with 

 a peculiar but grateful odour and 

 sweet- tasting stems, 2 to 3 feet high, 

 with white flowers in early summer, 



