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P^ONIA. 



THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. PANCRATIUM. 



The following list contains the best 

 varieties of single and double kinds : , 



SINGLE TREE PJEONIES. Beatrice 

 Kelway, Cecil Rhodes, Christine 

 Keiway, Ella C. Stubbs, Henry 

 Irving, Jean de Reszke, Julius Caesar, , 

 Karl Haag, Lady Sarah Wilson, 

 Miss Beatrice Jones, Mrs W. Kelway, 

 Princess of Wales, Queen Alexandra, | 

 Queen of Denmark. DOUBLE TREE \ 

 PEONIES : Bijou du Chusan, Blanche | 

 Noisette, Debugny, Dr Bowring, Glory I 

 of Shanghai, James Kelway (semi- 

 double), La ville de St Denis, Lilacea 



hardy as the others, and responds to 

 identical treatment. In all probability 

 it will prove the progenitor of a new 

 race of these plants. 



PANAX SESSILIFLORUM. This 

 really belongs to Acanthopanax, but 

 is sold under the above name. It is 

 one of the few shrubby Ar alias hardy 

 in Britain, coming from Manchuria, 

 where it grows as a tall dense shrub 

 with large trifoliate leaves and rounded 

 heads of dull purple flowers. The 

 chief beauty of the plant lies in the 



Pceonia lutea. 



pallida, Louise Mouchelet, Mme. 

 Rattier, Mme. Stuart Low, Maxima 

 plena, Reine Elizabeth, Triomphe de 

 Vandermael, Zenobia. Some of the 

 most strikingly beautiful are well 

 worthy of glass that is, having a 

 sash or two put over them in spring 

 to save them from late frosts and 

 rainy weather. Plenty of air must 

 be admitted, and the flowers gain in 

 an astonishing degree, both in size 

 and colour 



P. lutea, a new plant, has lately come 

 from the mountains of China, with the 

 woody stems of a Tree Paeony and 

 handsome yellow flowers. It is as 



glossy black berries, which hang far 

 into the winter. Syn. Acanthopanax 

 sessiliflorum. 



PANCRATIUM. Graceful Lily-like 

 plants of the Amaryllis order, the 

 only really hardy kind being the S. 

 European P. illyricum, i to 2 feet 

 high, which bears in summer umbels 

 of large white fragrant blossoms. It 

 thrives in a warm exposed border of 

 sandy loam soil, well drained, the 

 bulbs protected by litter in winter. 

 These plants are better for transplan- 

 tation about every third year, as soon 

 as the leaves are decayed in autumn. 



