DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF FLOWERS. Ill 



is very pretty when trained to neat sticks, or when left to 

 its natural mode of growth. Being ever in bloom, endur- 

 ing light frosts, beautiful and sweet, it will, Ave think, be- 

 come a great favorite. 



ACHILLEA.-YARROW. 



[Named after Achilles, a disciple of Chiron, and the first physician wlio used 

 it for liealing wounds.] 



Achillea millefolium. — ^A native, and like the other 

 species a hardy perennial, common along road sides; I 

 have found a quite "pretty rose-colored variety of this. A 

 handsome variety with red flowers, sometimes called A. 

 rubra ; is in bloom all the season and worthy of a place in 

 the garden. 



A. Ptarmica. — Sneeze-wort, a name given it because the 

 dried powder of the leaves, snufied up the nostrils, pro- 

 vokes sneezing. This is a desirable border-flower, particu- 

 larly in its double variety, as it continues in bloom most 

 of the season, throwing up a succession of its double 

 white flowers in corymbs, on stems about one foot high. 

 The foliage is dark, shining green. It is very hardy, and 

 easy to cultivate in almost any common soil. 



A. aurea, or golden-flowered, has rich golden-yellow 

 flowers, but not so hardy as the others named. All the 

 species produce their flowers in corymbs. 



ACONITTJM.— Monkshood. 



[So called from growing about Aco7ii, a town of Bithynia.] 



The species are robust, free-flowering plants, of some 

 beauty and consequence. The stems rise from 2 to 6 feet 

 in height, upright, strong, furnished with many digitate 

 or palmate leaves, and terminated by panicles or loose 



