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with handsome leaves which grow three to five feet high. 

 Other meadow-rues bear purple flowers, and still others 

 white. One of these white species comes from Japan. The 

 spiderwort ( Tradescantia Virginica) is a native plant, valu- 

 able chiefly for its continuous production during summer of 

 its peculiar deep violet-blue flowers. Trollius Huropceus, 

 European globe-flower, is a pretty plant with large lemon- 

 colored buttercup-like flowers, one to one and a half inches 

 across, on long stems. It grows two 

 feet high, blooms from June to Au- 

 gust, and comes from Arctic Europe. 

 There is a large double orange-colored 

 species from Japan that blooms in the 

 spring. Tunica saxifraga, rock Tuni- 

 ca, is a delicate spreading dwarf plant 

 that bears all summer a profusion of 

 small rosy-white flowers. It grows 

 six to ten inches high and is excel- 

 lent as a carpet plant. Viola cornuta, 

 horned violet, commences to bloom in spring and lasts 

 all summer. It is not unlike the common violet, and 

 its prevailing tints are blue, purple, white, and yellow. 

 It is a valuable violet for this special quality of continuous 

 flowering. 



Among the flowers that bloom still later in summer and 

 even in early fall, I will mention the beautiful A chilleas, or 

 yarrows or milfoils. The Egyptian yarrow has silvery fern- 

 like foliage and yellow flowers. It grows twelve to eigh- 

 teen inches high. A.fittipendidina is a more vigorous showy 

 species that displays golden-yellow flowers in dense, flat 



ROCK TUNICA. 



(TUNICA SAXIFRAGA.) 



