434 ARENARIA. 



THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



AR1STOTELIA. 



the sun. They require warm greenhouse 

 treatment in winter. 



A. acaulis is a very variable dwarf 

 species. The flowers are large, attractive, 

 and of a deep rich orange. It does not 

 ripen seed freely, but is easily propagated 

 from side shoots. 



A. aspera is a half-shrubby species, 

 with deeply cut and wrinkled leaves and 

 creamy flowers, purplish outside. It may 

 be used in vases and hanging baskets, the 

 pink buds being pretty. Cuttings strike 

 readily in heat. 



A. aureola is of shrubby habit, I to 2 

 ft. in height, with handsome orange flowers 

 towards the end of the branches. Cut- 

 tings. Syn. A. grandiflora. 



A. leptorhiza is one of the most showy 

 annuals we grow, with abundance of rich 

 orange flowers, as is also A. breviscapa, 

 which likes a sunny position. The seeds 

 may be sown in the open air, the plant 

 being treated as a hardy annual. A sunny 

 spot should be chosen, and the seedlings 

 well thinned. K. 



ARENARIA (Sandwort\k numer- 

 ous family of rock and mountain plants, of 

 vast distribution over northern and alpine 

 ranges, and in temperate countries. Few 

 kinds are in gardens, and these are dwarf 

 plants, easy to grow. 



A. balearica (Creeping Sandwort}.^ 

 pretty little plant, which coats rocks and 

 stones with verdure, and scatters over the 

 green mantle countless white starry 

 flowers. Plant firmly in any common soil 

 near the stones or rocks it is to cover, 

 and it will soon begin to clothe them. 

 Flowers in spring. Division. I first used 

 it for carpets beneath tea roses at Grave- 

 tye, and also for low rough stone walls, 

 over which it spreads in myriads. Corsica. 



A. montana (Mountain Sandworf). 

 A pretty rock-plant, having the habit of a 



Mountain Sand wort (Arenaria montana). 



Cerastium, and fine large white flowers. 

 It is the best of the large Sandworts, and 

 should be in every collection of rock- 

 plants, being hardy and free. France. 

 Seed or division. 



A. norwegica is one of the best kinds, 

 forming dense cushions about 6 in. in 

 diameter, and covered with large white 

 flowers throughout the summer. A fine 

 alpine plant. Norway. 



A. purpurescens (Purplish Sandwort). 

 An interesting kind with purplish 

 flowers, on a dwarf tufted mass of smooth 

 pointed leaves. It is plentiful over the 

 Pyrenean mountains, hardy, and, like the 

 other kinds, increased by seed or division. 

 It should be associated in the rock-garden 

 with the smallest plants. 



There are a great number of other 

 species, but it is not easy to find among 

 them plants of such garden value as those 

 named above. 



ARETHUSA. A. biilbosa is a beautiful 

 American hardy Orchid, which grows in 

 wet meadows or bog-land, blossoming in 

 May and June. Each plant bears a bright 

 rose-purple flower that shows well on its 

 bed of Sphagnum, Cranberry, and Sedge. 

 The little bulbs grow in a mossy mat 

 formed by the roots and decaying herbage 

 of plants and moss. In cultivation it 

 requires the same soil, and get the leaf as 

 well matured as possible. A shady moist 

 spot with a northern exposure is best, and 

 the soil should be a mixture of well-rotted 

 manure and Sphagnum. During winter, 

 protect the bed with some cover, for it is 

 not so hardy in gardens as in its bog home. 



ARGEMONE (Prickly Poppy}. Hand- 

 some Poppy-like plants, said to be peren- 

 nial, but perishing on moist soils after 

 the first year. As they come from the 

 warmer parts of California and Mexico, 

 and even there grow on dry hill-sides 

 and in warm valleys, their perishing here 

 may be understood. Usually about 2 ft. 

 high, they have large white flowers 4 in. 

 across with a bunch of yellow stamens 

 in the centre. They require a warm 

 loam, and go with the choicest annual 

 flowers. The kinds mostly grown are 

 A. mexicana, A. grandiflora, and A. 

 hispida, which are so much alike in habit 

 as not to need separate description. Seed 

 in a warm frame. 



ARISTOTELIA. A . macqui\s a hardy 

 Chilian shrub of the Lime tree family, 

 chiefly esteemed for its handsome ever- 

 green foliage. The pea-like berries are at 

 first dark purple but eventually black. 

 There is a variegated form, but not quite 

 so hardy as the species. Commoner in 

 southern Ireland than in England. 



