THALIA. 



THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



THALICTRUM. 



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white flowers in dense terminal clusters. 

 The leaves, branches, and stem are thickly 

 covered with soft silvery down. It is 

 suitable for the rock garden and for 

 borders. 



T. PURPUREUM. A quaint, rigid, ever- 

 green dwarf bush, 6 to 9 inches high, its 

 erect twigs, studded with bright rosy- 

 purple flowers, giving a bit of good colour 

 late in the season. Seed, cuttings, or 

 division. T. hyrcanicum, T. lusitanicum, 

 T. orientale, and T. multiflorum are also 

 noteworthy. 



partial shade. The double varieties 

 may be preferred to the type, and 

 there is also a pretty form with pale 

 j rosy sepals. N. America. T. minus 

 forms compact slightly glaucous sym- 

 metrical tufts, 12 to 1 8 inches high. 

 May be grown in any soil, but the 

 slender flower-stems, which appear in 

 May and June, should be pinched off. 

 This bushy little tuft resembles the 

 Maiden-hair Fern, and its leaves are 

 just as pretty for mixing with cut 



THALIA. T. dealbata is one 

 of the most stately of water-side 

 plants. Its glaucous foliage and 

 elegant panicles of purple flowers 

 are welcome along the margins 

 of shallow ponds or streams, and 

 it is hardy in sheltered places. 

 It is best grown in pots or tubs 

 pierced with holes, in a mixture 

 of stiff peat and clayey soil, and 

 river mud and sand. The plant 

 thrives only in warm places in 

 the southern counties S. Carolina. 

 Division. 



THALICTRUM (Meadow Rue). 

 Perennial herbs with elegant 

 foliage, but not showy flowers. 

 A few of the smaller species rival 

 in delicacy of form and colour 

 some of the charming Maiden- 

 hair Ferns, and may be associ- 

 ated with flowering plants, or those 

 of fine foliage. T. anemonoides (Rue 

 Anemone) is usually only a few inches 

 high, its white flowers* being nearly 

 i inch in diameter, and open in April 

 and May. It is best suited for the 

 rock garden in deep moist soil and 



Thcilictrum aquilegifoliuin . 



flowers, and last much longer. The 

 plants also look well isolated, in large 

 tufts in borders or as an edging. 

 Division. T. adiantifolium is similar. 

 T. tuber o sum is about 9 inches high, 

 with graceful foliage, and abundance 

 of yellowish cream - coloured flowers. 



