] 38 FLOWER GARDEN PERENNIALS. [MARCH. 



liquid manure will add to their vigour. They are all 

 natives of China, and greatly esteemed by the Chinese, 

 who only allow a few blooms to come out on the top 

 of each stem, thereby having the flowers much finer. 



Clematis, Virgin J s-bower. A few species are good her- 

 baceous plants, of upright growth, and blue flowers, C. 

 integrifolia ; C. anguslifolia; and C. erecta ; they grow 

 best in light soil. ^ ;^i 



Coreopsis, chiefly native plants, arid free-flowering; 

 colour principally yellow ; flowers rayed. C. tenuifolia, 



C. verticilldta, C. discolor, and C. tripteris, are the finest 

 of the genus, and will grow in any common garden soil. 



Delphinums. There are some showy border flowers 

 of these, of strong growth. The leaves are much di- 

 vided ; the flowers in terminale spikes ; colour blue, 

 purple, red, white and yellow, with various shades. D. 

 grandiflbrum, with its varieties, are the best of the genus. 



D. intermedium, and its varieties,!), datum, Bee Lark- 

 spur, from the ringent part of the flower being very 

 like a bee, and D. montdnum, are good varieties, and 

 easily cultivated. When the plants become large, they 

 ought to be divided, and planted in fresh soil. They 

 are in bloom from May to September. 



Didnthus. Some of the species of this genus are the 

 most prominent of the Flower-garden, not only for 

 their beauty, but also their fragrance, which is pecu- 

 liarly grateful, especially in the well known and cele- 

 brated pink and carnation, with the Sweet-william, 

 which was esteemed, in the days of old, " for its beauty 

 to deck up the bosoms of the beautiful, and garlands 





