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HARDY PERENNIALS AND 



suffer a serious check. I feel equally confident that the roots 

 enjoy a firm bed, but it should be of such material that they can 

 freely run in it. 



Flowering period, May and June. 



Daphne Cneorum. 



TRAILING DAPHNE; Common and Poetical Name, GARLAND 



FLOWER; Nat. Ord. THYMELACEJE. 



AN alpine shrub from Austria ; dwarf, evergreen, and having a 

 tendency to creep. It is deservedly a great favourite ; it wins 

 admiration by its neat and compact form and its dense and 

 numerous half -globular heads of rosy pink flowers, which are 

 exceedingly fragrant, in the way of the 

 old clove carnation, but more full. 



The flower buds are formed during 

 the previous season of growth, like those 

 of the rhododendron; for many days 

 before the flowers open the buds have a 



FIG. 33. DAPHNE CNEORUM. 

 (One-f ourtli natural size ; (1) flower, full size.) 



very pleasing appearance, being closely packed and coral-like; 

 when all the florets are expanded they form a half -globular head 

 lin. to l^in. across, being of a lively pink colour. The flowers 

 are composed of a tubular calyx, four-parted ; leaves inversely 

 ovate, lanceolate, pointed, and entire ; about an inch long, and 



