CHIONODOXA. 



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Rosea is a scarce variety bearing pink 

 flowers ; pallida has flowers of a very 

 light blue ; and Boissieri shows bright, 

 deep colour. 



C. Alleni (Allen's Snow Glory). 

 Though said to come from Mt. Taurus, 

 this is considered to be a form of the 

 next kind. Its flowers are, however, 

 rather earlier in opening, numerous, of 

 large size, and nearer blue in colour than 

 in the usual form of gigantea. 



C. gigantea (Iridescent Snow Glory). 

 A very handsome plant of robust habit, 

 with broader leaves and taller spikes 

 than in any other kind. The colour of 

 the flowers is soft violet or porcelain 

 blue with a small white centre, coming 



C. Tmolusi (late Snow Glory). A 

 dwarf variety of strong growth and latest 

 of any in bloom. Its large flowers are of 

 rich blue, with a large white eye faintly 

 outlined in purplish-blue, and with a 

 touch of deeper colour on the tips of the 

 petals. This kind is said to need a 

 damper situation than its fellows, and 

 certainly its growth is more vigorous in a 

 moist spot. 



C. nana (dwarf Snow Glory). A 

 dwarf kind from Crete, rarely more than 

 4 inches high. Its flowers are small but 

 attractive, and carried in dense spikes of 

 white or pale bluish lilac. 



CHOISYA TERNATA (Mexican 

 Orane-flower). A handsome shrub, in 



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Chionocloxa Sardensis. 



some weeks later than the early kinds. 

 A white form of this plant is now to be 

 had, and a variety albo-rosea, with flow- 

 ers delicately tinged with rose, but no- 

 thing can surpass in lovely and changing 

 colour the wild form. 



C. Sardensis (Sardis Snow Glory]. 

 A beautiful plant with flowers of rich deep 

 blue, free from the pale shading of other 

 kinds, the white eye being sharply de- 

 fined. It flowers during February and 

 March according to aspect, the effect of 

 its flowers and bronzy foliage being very 

 good. Several varieties are grown : alba, 

 a white form, and alba-major, with larger 

 flowers borne in fine spikes ; oculata,\n 

 which a deeper ring surrounds the white 

 disk ; while in some cases the flower 

 comes of a uniform deep blue. Mountain 

 of Asia Minor. 



the south and west often thrives with the 

 shelter of a wall and a southern or western 

 aspect, and in high ground, at least, as a 

 bush. It is fast-growing, the flowers a 

 lovely contrast to the deep rich green 

 foliage, best in free warm soils. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM. - - Perennial 

 and annual plants, some of which are 

 of great value for the garden. 



C. arcticum. A good plant for the 

 rock-garden about a foot high, flowering 

 all the summer, white tinged with lilac or 

 rose. 



C. carinatum (Tricolor Chrysanthe- 

 mum}. A showy annual from N. Africa, 

 which varies much in cultivation, and is 

 valuable if only for its yield of flowers 

 for cutting. There are double white and 

 yellow forms ; and the showy ones known 

 as C. Burridgeanum. Dunnett's varieties 



