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autumn before its leaves are produced, is often known 

 as C. hederaefolium. It is a beautiful plant, with flowers 

 of good size, rosy purple in colour in the type, but 

 there are many varieties, including a pure white. The 

 beautiful marbled leaves are produced after the flowers 

 and persist during the winter and spring, forming an 

 attractive feature in sheltered nooks in the rock garden. 

 The seeds are ripened during the following spring, and 

 if sown as soon as ripe they germinate well. They 

 may be grown on in small pots in a frame, potted up in 

 sandy loam, with broken-up mortar rubbish mixed with 

 the soil. It is a native of South Europe. 



C. cilicicum is another autumn-flowering kind from 

 Asia Minor, with prettily marbled leaves, and pale rose- 

 coloured flowers. 



C, Coum. This comes from Asia Minor and the sur- 

 rounding countries, and is one of the smallest kinds. 

 It flowers in the early spring, the blooms appearing at 

 the same time as the rounded green leaves. In colour 

 the flowers vary from a dull rosy purple to white. It 

 is one of the hardiest, as its leaves and flowers are not 

 hurt even after being frozen. Easy to grow, this may 

 be naturalised in short grass, while in the fern border 

 and around the base of large trees it is very beautiful 

 when established. C. ibericum is the Caucasian form 

 of this, with leaves that have a white zone above, while 

 the range of colour in the flowers is the same. Of the 

 two it is the stronger and more ornamental. 



C. repandum. Is a native of Southern Europe, and 



