TRICUSPIDARIA. THE ENGLISH FLOWER GAkDEti. TRILLIUM. 75! 



Trichonema. See ROMULEA. 



TRICUSPIDARIA. T. lanceolata is 

 a lovely flowering shrub from Chili, 

 which has flowered in the open air at 

 Castlewellan and in other sheltered 

 seaside gardens for several years past. 

 At Castlewellan it is planted in a shady 

 border near a large Yew hedge, in peat, 

 leaf soil, and loam in equal proportions. 

 It flowers twice a year, in the spring 

 and in autumn, the colour of the 

 flowers being a rich crimson. Being 

 near the sea there is very little frost in 

 ordinary winters, and the plant requires 

 no protection, but in a less favoured 

 place it would be well to pot it and 

 winter it in a cool greenhouse. Syn., 

 Crinodendron Hookerianum. 



There has recently come into culti- 

 vation a second species named T. 

 dependens, and the fact that this name 

 has for many years been used for the 

 older plant has given rise to much 

 confusion. T. dependens bears white 

 bell-shaped flowers fringed around the 

 mouth, drooping gracefully from the 

 under side of the branches of an elegant 

 evergreen shrub, which thrives in the 

 open air in our warmest coast gardens. 

 Like the older kind, it comes from 

 Chili, and has already reached a height 

 of 7 or 8 feet at Car clew in Cornwall. 



TRICYRTIS. T. hirta is an inter- 

 esting Japanese perennial, about 3 feet 

 high, with slender erect stems ter- 

 minated by a few curiously - shaped 

 pinkish blossoms, spotted with pur- 

 plish-black. It is perfectly hardy, but 

 flowers so late that it is invariably 

 damaged by frosts. The variety nigra 

 flowers three weeks earlier, and is 

 therefore better, whilst the flowers are 

 more attractive Other garden forms 

 of this species are grandiflora, its white 

 flowers spotted with purple ; and varie- 

 gata, with finely marked foliage of 

 charming effect in a moist shady spot. 

 T. pilosa is dwarfer and rarer than 

 T. hirta, but is otherwise a similar 

 plant. T. macropodum bears yellow 

 and black flowers, and blooms much 

 earlier than the other species. They 

 all thrive in a moist peat border, par- 

 tially shaded, and if somewhat pro- 

 tected so much the better. 



TRIENTALIS (Star - flower) . T. 

 europaa is a delicate and graceful 

 plant found over Europe, Asia, and 

 America, in shady, woody, and mossy 

 places. It has erect, slender stems, 

 rarely more than 6 inches high, bear- 

 ing one to four flower-stems, each with 

 a white or pink -tipped star -shaped 



flower in early summer. Healthy well- 

 rooted plants are not difficult to estab- 

 lish among dwarf shrubs in some half- 

 shady part of the rock garden, in peat 

 soil. Flowers in early summer. Divi- 

 sion. 



TRIFOLIUM (Trefoil). Among the 

 few garden varieties are some dwarf 

 creeping kinds, the best being T. uni- 

 florum from Syria, a neat trailing plant 

 with pink and white flowers, borne 



Tricuspidaria lanceolata. From a photograph sent 

 by Lord Annesley. 



singly, and studded profusely over the 

 plant. It delights in an exposed posi- 

 tion on the rock garden, with an open 

 space on which to creep. T. alpinum 

 is a stout spreading kind, 3 to 6 inches 

 high, bearing large, but not brilliant, 

 flowers in summer, the upper petal 

 fleshr coloured and streaked with 

 purple. T. rubens is a stout peren- 

 nial, about i foot high, with large 

 dense heads of carmine flowers in early 

 summer. It grows almost anywhere, 

 but prefers dry, calcareous soils. 

 T. pannonicum, with creamy-white 

 flowers, is ornamental. " Calvary 

 Clover ' ' is the common name of a 

 pretty variety of the white Dutch 

 Clover, in which the leaves are almost 

 entirely of a deep bronze-purple colour ; 

 it quickly spreads into a dark carpet 

 of singular effect. Division or seed. 



TRILLIUM (Wood Lily), Peren- 

 nials of low growth, which inhabit the 

 woods of N. America. The finest is 



