TRlTELElA. 



THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



TROLLIUS. 



.T. grandiflorum (White Wood Lily), 

 one of the most beautiful hardy plants, 

 6 to 12 inches high, with on each stem 

 a lovely white three-petalled flower, 

 fairer than the white Lily, and almost 

 as large. It is a free-growing plant of 

 goodly size in a shady peaty border in 

 open air ; but in a sunny or exposed 

 position its large soft green leaves do 

 not develop. Depressed shady nooks 

 in the rock garden or the hardy fernery 

 suit it admirably. In the rosy variety 

 the rosy hue is most pronounced in 

 the young stage, and the leaf -stalks 

 and the foliage are of a more bronzy 

 shade of green. Other distinct varie- 

 ties are maximum, with stems very 

 stout and twice the usual height, while 



bloom. It does well in pots, revels in 

 chalky loams, and even in an unfavour- 

 able position in clay. There are 

 several forms, which differ in the shade 

 of their flowers. Associated with the 

 best Scillas, Leucojum vernum, Iris 

 reticulata, dwarf Daffodils, and the like, 

 T. uniflora is delightful, and is equally 

 useful for the rock garden, borders, or 

 edgings. S. America. T. (Leucocoryne) 

 alliacea is nearly allied, less pretty, and 

 thrives under similar circumstances. 

 For other species see BRODIJEA. 



Tritoma. See KNIPHOFIA. 

 Tritonia. See MONTBRETIA. 



TROCHODENDRON. The only 

 species is T. aralioides, a rare evergreen 



Trillium grandijlorum (White Wood l.ily). 



the flowers are 4 to 6 inches across ; 

 and palustris, a form specially adapted 

 for wet ground, and nearly equal 

 in vigour to that just described. 

 Thus is the kind found by far the best 

 in shade. Its rivale is a dwarf kind, 

 well spoken of for the rock garden, but 

 I have not seen it. 



TRITELEIA (Spring Star-flower). 

 T. uniflora is a delicately-coloured, 

 free-flowering, hardy, bulbous plant, 

 4 to 6 inches high ; the flowers white, 

 with bluish reflections, and marked on 

 the outside through the middle of the 

 divisions with a violet streak, which is 

 continued down the tube. They open 

 at sunrise, and are conspicuously beau- 

 tiful on bright days, but close in dull 

 and sunless weather. The plant comes 

 into flower with or before Scilla sibirica, 

 and during April remains in effective 



shrub from moist mountain woods of 

 Japan, hardy in our southern gardens. 

 It is of somewhat straggling habit, 

 with loosely - clustered pale green 

 leathery leaves and handsome greenish 

 flowers three - quarters of an inch 

 across, clustered together at the tips 

 of the shoots as in Ivy and Aralia. In 

 Japan the flowers are followed by 

 fleshy fruits. 



TROLLIUS ( Globe-flower) . Hand- 

 some stout perennials of erect habit, 

 needing no support. They may be 

 grown in borders or by streams, and in 

 moist loam, where they give delightful 

 effects. They are of dense growth, 

 foliage and flowers rising from an 

 underground crown with deep-search- 

 ing roots. The flowers vary from a 

 pale yellow to a deep gold. The Globe- 

 flowers are at their best in May and 



