HARDY PERENNIALS AND 



weeks on the same plant. It has large, fleshy, semi-tuberous 

 roots, and many of them ; so that at any time it may be trans- 



Fia. 80. RANUNCULUS AMPLEXICAUI/IS 

 (One-fourth natural size.) 



planted. I have pulled even flowering plants to pieces, and the 

 different parts, which, of course, had plenty of roots to them, 

 still continued to bloom. 



Flowering period, April and May. 



Ranunculus Speciosum. 



SHOWY CROWFOOT; Nat. Ord. BANUNCULACE^E. 



THIS is another double yellow form of the Buttercup. It has 

 only recently come into my possession. The blooms are very 

 large and beautiful, double the size of R. acris fl.-pl., and a 

 deeper yellow ; the habit, too, is much more dwarf, the leaves 

 larger, but similar in shape. 



Flowering period, April to June. 



All the foregoing Crowfoots are of the easiest culture, needing 

 no particular treatment ; but they like rich and deep soil. They 

 may be increased by division at almost any time, the exceptions 

 being when flowering or at a droughty season. 



