1 6 My New Zealand Garden 



green at the tips. It has a faint but peculiar and 

 pleasant scent, and the flowers will last quite ten 

 days or a fortnight without water. Linum trigyniun 

 is a very pretty bright yellow flower, and another, 

 with very much larger and deep orange-coloured 

 flowers, whose specific name I am not sure of, is 

 a perfect beauty. 



We are near the end of this assemblage of 

 plants and their accompanying merits, which I 

 could not omit to mention. Among the rest that 

 occupy front seats on this border is Stokesia cyanca, 

 which deserves great praise. It inherits all the 

 best points of the Aster family, to which it belongs. 

 It is very floriferous, and continues its blooming 

 period nearly all the summer, and well into the 

 winter. The flowers, which are single with serrated 

 edges, are a good blue mauve colour, and last well 

 in water and on the plant. There are also Neritim 

 Fothergilii, with its brilliant scarlet petals, spark- 

 ling with the appearance of gold-dust upon them ; 

 the glistening white one and a pink Sarnunsis ; a 

 blood-red Canna, Lilium auratum, Inula glandulosa, 

 Adonis vernalis, Haemanthus, Hedychium, Brousve- 

 gias, and Aquilegias, some large single blue and 

 white, some with lemon and various mixtures of 

 amazing beauty all from a packet of Veitch's seed. 

 It was indeed a surprise packet worth having. 



