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GARDEN FLOWERS. 



.lEADOW SWEET. 



'SPIR/tA ULMARIA.) 



dropwort, grows three feet high, has fern-like foliage and 

 numerous double white flowers in summer. It is an old 

 and favorite plant. Then there is the 

 red flowering and fragrant 8. lobata 

 or venusta, queen of the prairies, and 

 meadow-sweet, 8. Ulmaria, from Great 

 Britain and Northern Europe and Si- 

 beria, with fragrant white flowers and 

 from three to four feet high, loving 

 inoist places and water-courses. There 

 is a pretty speedwell blooming long 

 in the summer-time. It is Veronica 

 (tmeihystina, a better kind than gen- 

 twelve to eighteen inches high, and bearing 



V. 

 the 



speedwells, bearing a larger flower-spike and larger indi- 

 vidual flowers of a brilliant amethystine blue, which con- 

 trast finely with the rich green foliage. 

 It is one of the Japanese acquisitions. 

 Yucca jilamentosa belongs to the sum- 

 mer season, with its tall spikes of bell- 

 like flowers and strange tropical-look- 

 ing leaves suited for rockwork. This 

 plant is hardly an herbaceous plant, and 

 yet it seems to belong here rather than 

 among shrubs on account of the ap- GENTIAN LEAVED SPEEDWELL. 

 pearance of the great spikes of flowers. (VERONICA GENT.ANOIDES.) 



We come now to the fall-blooming, hardy, herbaceous 

 plants, which give us so much enjoyment during the 



showy amethyst-blue flowers in pyramidal clusters. 

 longifolut) var. subsessilis, is, however, the best of 



