TRILLIUM. 



THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



TRITON! A. 



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spreading kind, 3 to 6 in. high, bearing 

 large, but not brilliant flowers in summer, 

 the upper petal flesh-coloured and streaked 

 with purple. It is suitable for the rock- 

 garden and margins of borders. T. 

 rubens is a stout perennial, about i ft. 

 high, with large dense heads of carmine 

 flowers in early summer. It grows almost 

 anywhere, but prefers dry, calcareous, 

 marly or gravelly soil, therefore is 

 specially suited for naturalisation on arid 

 slopes with a southern aspect. T. pan- 

 nonicum, with creamy-white flowers, is 

 ornamental. "Calvary Clover" is the 

 common name of a pretty variety of the 

 white Dutch Clover, in which the leaves 

 are almost entirely of a deep bronze- 

 purple colour ; it quickly spreads into a 



twice the usual height, while the flowers 

 are 4 to 6 in. across ; and palustris, a 

 form specially adapted for wet ground 

 and nearly equal in vigour to that just 

 described. T. atro-purpureum, T, ery- 

 throcarpum, T. sessile, and T. pendulum 

 are not equal to T. grandiflorum, but 

 some of them are pretty, whilst all are 

 interesting. A full description of these 

 and their varieties will be found in Flora 

 and Sylva, Vol. II, p. 170. 



TRITELEIA (Spring Star-flower). 

 T. uniflora is a delicately-coloured, free- 

 flowering, hardy, bulbous plant, 4 to 6 in. 

 high ; the flowers white, with bluish re- 

 flections, and marked on the outside 

 through the middle of the divisions with a 

 violet streak, which is continued down the 



Trillium grandiflorum (White Wood Lily). 



dark carpet of singular effect. Division 

 or seed. 



TRILLIUM ( Wood Lily}. Perennials 

 of low growth, which inhabit the 

 woods of N. America. The finest is 

 T. grandiflorum (White Wood Lily), one 

 of the most beautiful hardy plants, 6 to 12 

 in. high, with on each stem a lovely white 

 three-petalled flower, fairer than the white 

 Lily, and almost as large. It is a free- 

 growing plant of goodly size in a shady 

 peaty border in open air ; but in a sunny 

 or exposed position its large soft green 

 leaves do not develop. Depressed shady 

 nooks in the rock-garden or the hardy 

 fernery suit it admirably. In the rosy 

 variety the rosy hue is most pronounced 

 in the young stage, and the leaf-stalks 

 and the foliage are of a more bronzy shade 

 of green. Other distinct varieties are 

 maximum, with stems very stout and 



tube. They open at sunrise, and are 

 conspicuously beautiful on bright days, 

 but close in dull and sunless weather. The 

 plant comes into flower with or before 

 Scilla sibirica, and during April remains in 

 effective bloom. It does well in pots, and 

 even in an unfavourable position in clay. 

 There are several forms, which differ in 

 the shade of their flowers. Associated 

 with the best Scillas, Leucojum vernum, 

 Iris reticulata, dwarf Daffodils, and the 

 like, T. unijlora is delightful, and is equally 

 useful for the rock-garden, borders, or 

 edgings. S. America. T. (Leucocoryne) 

 alliacea is nearly allied, less pretty, and 

 thrives under similar circumstances. For 

 other species see BRODI^A. 



Tritoma. See KNIPHOFIA. 



TRITONIA. Graceful and showy 

 plants from the Cape, better than most 

 S. African plants in their hardiness and 



