42 GARDEN FLOWERS. 



A. androscemifolium (tutsan-leaved) ; hardy perennial ; 3 feet ; 

 flowers pink, in July ; North America ; 1688. A. cannabinum 

 (hemp-like) ; hardy perennial ; 3 feet ; flowers yellowish, in July ; 

 North America ; 1699. A. hypericifolium (hypericum-leaved) ; 

 hardy perennial ; 3 feet ; flowers white, in June ; North America ; 

 1758. A. Venetian (Venetian); hardy perennial ; 2 feet; flowers 

 white, in July; Adriatic Islands ; 1690. 



APONOGETON. [Fluviales.] Curious and elegant peren- 

 nial water-plants ; one or two require a stove temperature, 

 others a greenhouse. A. distachyon is easily grown and 

 flowered in the open air in summer, and may be preserved 

 in a cellar during winter ; the tender kinds in pots set into a 

 tank or tub. Soil, peat and loam. Propagated by seeds, 

 which should be sown in spring in the same kind of soil, 

 and the pots set under water : they also increase by offsets. 



A. distachyon (two-spiked); I foot; flowers white, in June; 

 Cape of Good Hope; 1788. A. angustifolium (narrow-leaved); 

 greenhouse aquatic ; i foot ; flowers white, in June ; Cape of 

 Good Hope ; 1788. A. juncifolium (rush-leaved) ; greenhouse 

 aquatic ; I foot; flowers white, in July; 1847. 



AQUILEGIA. Columbine, [Ranunculaceae.] Handsome 

 hardy perennials. Common garden soil ; good turfy loam 

 for the choicer sorts. Propagated by seeds, or by division. 

 The seed of the common kinds may be sown in beds thinly 

 in May ; the young plants, when strong enough, planted out 

 six inches apart every way. If they are to bloom in beds, 

 they should be nine inches apart and eighteen inches from 

 row to row. When they bloom, pull out and destroy all the 

 single and ugly ones, and, if desirable, propagate the better 

 ones. The common Columbine has sported into a variety 

 of colors ; and some of its double varieties are very beautiful. 



A. Alpina (Alpine) ; hardy perennial ; i foot ; flowers blue, in 

 May ; Switzerland ; 1731. A. atropurpurea (dark purple) ; har- 

 dy perennial; I foot; flowers purple, in May; Siberia; 1827. 



