MITCHELLA. 



THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



MORINA. 



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the leaves are killed by frost the tapering 

 black root must be lifted and stored in 

 sand during the winter. The plants 

 should be started in pots in spring and 

 planted out as before ; but after the second 

 year the roots become unwieldy, and 

 should be discarded. They require a 

 warm soil and all the sunshine of our 

 climate. The seeds ripen rapidly and 

 readily ; each flower produces one seed 

 only, and as the seeds are large they can 

 be gathered from the ground beneath the 

 plants. M. multiflora is somewhat similar 

 to M. Jalapa, but dwarfer, and the bright 

 crimson-purple flowers are in large clusters, 

 expanding in bright sunshine. It is a 

 hardy perennial in light warm soils, and 

 is a good border plant. M. longiflora, 

 having long tubular flowers with carmine 

 centres, is capital for the foot of a warm 

 south wall. Mexico. 



MITCHELLA (DeerBerry).M. repens 

 is a neat, trailing, small evergreen herb, 2 

 or 3 in. high, with white flowers in summer, 

 succeeded by small bright red berries. 

 It thrives in shady spots on the rock- 

 garden or the hardy fernery, in sandy peat. 

 Division. N. America. 



MITRARIA (Mitre-flower) -M. coccinea 

 is a bright charming little shrub from Chili, 

 hardy in mild districts, but generally 

 requiring winter protection. It is a small 

 evergreen shrub, bearing in summer 

 numerous urn-shaped flowers about i^ in. 

 long and of a brilliant scarlet, thriving 

 in a mixture of sandy peat and loam, 

 in a moist sheltered spot, with perfect 

 drainage. 



MOLOPOSPERMUM. M. cicutarium 

 is a hardy umbelliferous plant, 5 ft. or more 

 high, with large handsome leaves which 

 form a dense irregular bush. It loves a 

 deep moist soil, but thrives in good garden 

 soil and is a fine plant for grouping with 

 other hardy and fine leaved plants. 

 Division. Carniola. 



MOLUCCELLA. M. Icevis is a singu- 

 lar plant of the Dead Nettle family. It is by 

 no means showy and its only recommenda- 

 tion for the garden is the singular form 

 of its calyces, which are bell-shaped and 

 densely arranged on erect stems about 

 i ft. in height. It is a fine subject for 

 skeletonising, and the stems, bracts, and 

 calyces may be skeletonised intact. For 

 this purpose they should not be cut before 

 autumn, when the plant is fully matured. 

 Should be treated as a half-hardy annual. 

 Eastern Mediterranean. 



MONARDA (Bee Balm}. Showy bor- 

 der flowers of the simplest culture, thriving 

 and flowering in any position or soil ; and 

 therefore, besides being admirably suited 



for garden borders, they are excellent 

 subjects for naturalisation in woods and 

 shrubberies. All may be readily divided 

 at the root. They have some variety of 

 colour, and the varieties of M. fistulosa 

 alone represent more than half-a-dozen 

 different shades. The red kind scattered 

 through American woods in autumn is 

 very handsome. M. fistulosa (Wild Ber- 

 gamot) is a robust perennial, 2 to 4 ft. 

 high, the flowers variable ; the usual 

 colour pale red, and every gradation 

 almost to white may be found in it. M. 

 didyma (Oswego Tea) is robust, about 3 

 ft. high, the deep red flowers, borne in 

 head-like whorls, continuing a longtime 

 in summer. M. Kalmiana is a showy 

 plant, taller and more robust than the 



Molopospermum cicutarium. 



preceding, and is often 4 ft. high, the deep 

 crimson flowers in dense whorls. M. pur- 

 purea is somewhat similar in habit to the 

 last, but the deep purplish-crimson flowers 

 are smaller. All are natives of N. America, 

 and may be increased by division in spring 

 or by seed. 



Montbretia. See TRITONIA. 



MORINA ( Whorl-flower). M '. longi- 

 folia is a handsome and singular perennial, 

 with large spiny leaves, resembling those 

 of certain Thistles, and with long spikes of 

 whorled flowers, 2 to 3 ft. high. It grows 

 well in ordinary well-drained soil, but pre- 



