ROSE TIME 



Adotiis Vernalis. — The yellow spring Ox-eye, a good June 

 plant. There is also an autumn-flowering species. ^"^5 



Aethionema Grandiflora. — ^The " Persian Candytuft," 

 which has pretty spikes of rosy-lavender flowers, and is 

 a really charming plant. 



Aloysia {or Lippid) Citriodora, the Lemon-scented 

 Verbena, which I have previously referred to as having 

 foliage that is highly perfumed in both a green and a dry 

 state. I ought to say that it cannot be wintered out of 

 doors without protection. 



Alstromeria Chilensts, the Chilian Herb Lily, a graceful 

 and free-blooming plant, which bears a profusion of 

 orange, scarlet, and pink flowers in summer. When 

 established it needs no cultivation of any kind, except 

 to hoe for weeds ; indeed, it is better without inter- 

 ference. 



Alyssum Saxatile Compactumj the yellow Rock Mad- 

 wort, so bright in spring in beds and on rockeries ; 

 certainly one of our most useful plants. 



Anchusa Italica, or the Dropmore variety, which is 

 finer than the old species. Gentian-blue, free-blooming. 

 We have very few plants of the colour. 



Androsaces, such as Lactiflora, white, and Laggeri, 

 carmine-rose, two tiny gems for the rockery. 



Anemones, notably Coronaria, the Crown or Poppy 

 Anemone, of which seedsmen now offer improved 

 strains, such as the St. Brigid. These are splendid 

 plants for large clumps and beds. They spread a cover- 

 ing of Parsley-like foliage over the ground, and throw 

 up flower stems a foot to eighteen inches high, crowned 

 with large, richly coloured flowers. Narcissiflora, the 

 " Daffodil Windflower," as some call it, is a pretty white- 

 blossomed Anemone, and so is Sylvestris, the Snowdrop 

 Anemone. 



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