OLD-FASHIONED GARDEN FLOWERS. 61 



There is nothing special about the culture of this very hardy 

 and rampant -growing plant, but I may add that, though it will 

 stand for many years in one place, and flower well too, it is 

 vastly improved by division of the roots in autumn or early 

 spring every second year. The earth of its new site should be 

 deeply dug and well enriched with stable manure; it will not 

 then matter much what sort of soil it is the more open the 

 situation the better. How grandly these decorate the borders 

 when in masses ! and as a cut flower I need hardly say that there 

 are few to excel the Chrysanthemum, either as an individual 

 bloom or for bouquet and other work. 



I do not frequently make mention of many florists' flowers by 

 name, but in this case I think I may usefully name a few 

 varieties : Andromeda, cream coloured, Sept. ; Captain Nemo, 

 rosy purple, Aug. ; Cassy, pink and white, Oct. ; Cromatella, 

 orange and brown, Sept. ; Delphine Caboche, reddish mauve, Aug. ; 

 Golden Button, small canary yellow, Aug. ; Illustration, soft 

 pink to white, Aug. ; Jardin des Plantes, white, Sept. ; La Petite 

 Marie, white, good, Aug.; Madame Pecoul, large, light rose, Aug.; 

 Mexico, white, Oct. ; Nanum, large, creamy blush, Aug. ; Preco- 

 cite, large, orange, Sept. ; Soeur Melaine, French white, Oct. ; 

 St. Mary, very beautiful, white, Sept. These, it will be seen, 

 are likely to afford a variety and succession of bloom. 



Flowering period, August to November. 



Cichorium Intybus. 



0. PERENNE and C. SYLVESTRE WILD SUCCORY or 



CHICORY; Nat. Ord. COMPOSITE. 

 THIS herbaceous perennial is a native plant, in many parts 

 being very common. Not only, however, do many not know it 

 as a wild flower, but we have the facts that under cultivation it 

 is a distinct and showy plant, and that of late it has come into 

 great request. Its flowers are a pleasing blue, and produced on 

 ample branches, and for mixing with other "old-fashioned" 

 kinds, either in the borders or as cut blooms, they are decidedly 

 telling; for blending with other Composites it has its value 

 mainly from the fact that blues are rare in September; the 

 China asters are too short in the stalk for cutting purposes, and 

 many of the tall perennial starworts are neither bright nor well 

 disposed. I may also mention another proof of its decorative 

 quality it is not common (i.e., wild) in my district, and a plant 

 being cultivated in my garden for its flowers has been so 

 much admired that it is likely to have other patrons, and in 

 many instances it is being introduced into gardens where the 

 choicest flowers are cultivated. I am bound, however, to 

 say that when not in flower it has the appearance of the com- 

 monest weed. 



