XYMPH^A. 



THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



CENOTHERA. 



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4 in. in diameter, with twenty-two sepals 

 and petals ; the four sepals dark olive- 

 green behind, and pale rosy-lilac in front, 

 the petals deep rose-purple and delicately 

 marbled. 



N. M. ignea is a larger flower, nearly 5 

 in. in diameter when fully open ; the sepals 

 pale olive-green, edged with rose behind 

 and pale rose, nearly white, in front. 

 There are eighteen shapely petals, closely 

 imbricated, and forming a beautiful 

 cupped whorl around the vivid orange-red 

 based stamens in the middle of the flower. 

 The petals are of a deep, but bright rosy- 

 crimson. 



N. M. flammea varies in colour, which 

 consists of innumerable minute red dots 

 on a white ground, the outer petals ap- 

 pearing pink, and the colour deepening to 

 red in the centre of the flower. 



The Laydekeri group of varieties em- 

 braces many-exquisite forms. Fulgens is 

 a charming Water-lily, the flower small 

 and having fine outer dark green sepals, 

 and about fifteen cupped and shapely 

 crimson-magenta petals, glowing like a 

 ruby in the sun. 



N. L. fulva has its flowers washed and 

 pencilled with bright redon a creamy-yellow 

 ground, the stamens golden-yellow, and 

 the leaves mottled with brownish colour on 

 the surface, but the reverse side spotted 

 with red. 



Liliacea is a dainty flower, only about 

 2i in. across when wide open ; the sepals 

 dark sap green, margined behind with pale 

 rose, while the fifteen peach-blossom-tinted 

 petals are in contrast to the small tuft of 

 golden-yellow stamens ; the rosy petals 

 have quite a silvery lustre in the sun- 

 light. 



N. L. lucida has very large flowers of a 

 soft vermilion shade, the stamens orange, 

 whilst the large leaves are spotted with 

 chestnut and with bright red on the reverse 

 side. 



N. L. purpurata has beautiful flowers, 

 symmetrical in form and rich red in colour, 

 crimson towards the centre ; the stamens 

 are reddish carmine. 



Seignoureti has delicate yellow flowers, 

 shaded with soft rose and flushed with 

 carmine ; they rise nearly six inches above 

 the water, the leaves being spotted with 

 chestnut on the limb, and on the reverse 

 side with red. L. rosea is a lovely kind, 

 quite the finest of the small varieties ; the 

 flowers are about 2 inches across, 

 numerous, and of a rose-purple shade, 

 passing to white at the end of the petals. 



N. Eobinsoni is a beautiful Lily raised 

 by M. Latour-Marliac, star-like in form, 

 somewhat larger than N. Laydekeri, and 



generally of a lovely rose colour, deepen- 

 ing towards the centre. It is distinguished 

 by the rose being finely spotted through- 

 out with white, though the impression 

 given is rather that of suffusion than of 

 spotting. This is a most distinct flower. 

 Other fine hybrid forms are Andreana 

 Gloriosa and Ellisi, and as the plants seed 

 freely no doubt numerous varieties will be 

 raised. 



acutiloba, China ; alba, northern 

 temperate regions ; albo rosea, Amazonum, Brazil ; 

 ampla, W. Indies ; Basniniana, Siberia ; bella, E. 

 Indies ; blanda, S. Amer. ; capensis, S. Africa ; elegans, 

 Texas ; JJa-ua, Florida \Jlavo-virensj fragrantissima, 

 tropical Africa ; Gardneriana, Brazil ; gigantea, Aus- 

 tralia; gracilis, Mexico; hirta, Sumatra ; Jamesoniana, 

 Ecuador ; lasiophylla, Brazil ; Lotus, Asia and trop. 

 Africa ; Maxitniliani, Brazil ; Mexicana, Mexico ; 

 nitida, Siberia ; nubica, trop. Africa ; odorata, N. 

 Amer. ; oxypeta^a, Ecuador ; Parkeriana, Guiana ; 

 pauciradiata, Siberia ; punctata, Central Asia ; rosea, 

 E. Indies ; Rudgeana, Guiana ; rufescens ; stellata, 

 Asia and trop. Africa ; stenaspidota, Brazil ; Sumat- 

 rana, Sumatra ; tertninerva, Brazil ; tetragona, Asia ; 

 trisepola, trop. America ; tuberosa, N. Amer. ; tussi- 

 lagifolia, Mexico ; imdulata, Mexico ; vivipara \ IVen- 

 zelii, Amoor ; Zanzibariensis, trop. Africa. 



NYSSA (Tupelo tree).& small group 

 of trees little planted, but having certain 

 good qualities. One of the most brilliant 

 sights I remember was a Tupelo tree at 

 Strathsfieldsaye in Hampshire in autumn, 

 a tall slender 

 tree, in splendid 

 colour of leaf. 

 The 



trees are 

 mostly natives of 

 North Eastern 

 America, a very 

 cold country, so 

 that there can 

 be no doubt 

 about their har- 

 diness ; and the 

 fact that they 

 grow in swampy 

 places should make them easy to find a 

 place in this river and estuary veined land. 



N. sylvatica is the Sour Gum or Tupelo, 

 a tree over 100 feet high in deep swampy 

 ground in Maine and Canada, southwards and 

 westwards. 



N. biflora ( Water Tupelo] is a somewhat 

 smaller swamp and waterside tree, of N. 

 Jersey and southwards. 



N. aquatica (Tupelo Guni) rises sometimes 

 to a height of 100 feet, and is rather of 

 southern and western distribution. The two 

 first-named species are the most important for 

 our country. 



CENOTHERA (Evening Primrose}. 

 These are amongst the prettiest of hardy 

 flowers, and are easily grown in all 

 soils. From June onward they are in 

 their beauty, many varieties becoming 

 more full of flowers in late summer. 

 They have large bright yellow or white 



Nyssa villosa. 



