My Garden in Spring 



with its dingy, faded-lilac flowers. I have never yet 

 made up my mind as to whether I like bulbosa to spread 

 about or no. On the one hand it is so early and 

 does no harm, but on the other it is not very attractive 

 and takes up a certain amount of space. C. cava is 

 brighter in colour and also has a good white form, and 

 both are welcome to spread where they will. C. Lede- 

 bouriana and C. Semenowii did well for some years, 

 but have died, I am sorry to say, for I liked their 

 glaucous leaves and the pink flowers of the one and 

 the orange of the other. They would travel under- 

 ground in their supposed resting season and come up in 

 most unexpected places, and this made it hard to prevent 

 their being dug into or getting smothered by a neighbour. 

 I have not seen them for some years, but always look out 

 for their reappearance each Spring, hoping they may have 

 returned from their travels. The beauty of the family is 

 C. nobilis from Siberia, but it does not produce its light 

 yellow flowers till May. Each blossom has a curious 

 blackish-green tip to it, as though a beetle sat upon it. 

 Except Adlumia cirrhosa, a very near relation, and some 

 hateful weeds like Cardamine hirsuta, I can remember no 

 plants that ripen seeds so quickly as this Corydalis family. 

 It seems one day the flowers look a little faded and wan, 

 and then the next they fall off, leaving a fat green pod, and 

 if you break it open the seeds are black and shining and 

 look ready for sowing. 



Petasites nivea is not common in gardens, but is very 



much so in subalpine regions : it lacks the delicious scent 



of P. fragrans, the Winter Heliotrope, but then it does not 



run so violently and become such a nuisance, and its 



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