TAMARIX. 



THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



TAXODIUM. 



Marigold, but has much smaller flowers, 

 either double or single. It was formerly 

 largely used for summer bedding, its 

 elegantly-cut leaves being perhaps its 

 most pleasing feature. As it needs a 

 little starving to induce it to bloom freely 

 in beds and masses, the soil must be 

 rather poor. Like all other Marigolds, it 

 stands drought well. T. s. pumila is a 

 dwarf form. 



TAMARIX (Tamarisk). Graceful 

 hardy shrubs, often neglected owing to 

 the too common habit of not grouping 

 and making right use of each shrub in 

 relation not only to soil, but also to ex- 

 posure and position. Lost in the jumble 

 of the shrubbery, these would never give 

 any good effect, and would probably soon 

 perish from the attacks of laurel, privet, 

 elder, and other hungry rubbish of the 

 conventional shrubbery, but their true use 

 is for seashore gardens and for holding 

 the soil of river banks. They are among 

 the best shrubs, too, when we have to 

 plant near the sea, the fine branches split- 

 ting up the winds. On shores they are 

 often found all round the north of Africa 

 and southern Europe, but they are also 

 beautiful away from the shore if grouped 

 properly in a full exposure. As to kinds, 

 we are richer in names than in plants, 

 a number of terms being nursery names 

 for the few cultivated species and their 

 varieties. Among hardy shrubs these are 

 remarkably distinct in the feathery charac- 

 ter of their growth. No other woody 

 plants we can grow in the open air give 

 the same fine effect as they do, and of 

 the shrubs that can be grown on the sea- 

 shore there is none so good. 



T. chinensis is a recent introduction, 

 and has been distributed from some nur- 

 series as T. japonica plumosa. It is not 

 quite so hardy as our native kind. It has 

 very plumose branches, and is a most 

 graceful shrub with pink flowers. 



T. gallica (French Tamarisk}. Is 

 found wild on the south-west coast of 

 England, in France, and North Africa. It 

 is a shrub 5 ft. to 10 ft. high, or in N. 

 Africa a tree 30 ft. high or more. The 

 flowers are pale pink, and borne on short 

 cylindrical spikes in summer. T. anglica 

 is one of the forms of this species, which 

 vary according to the climate of which 

 they are native. 7\ africana and T. 

 algeriensis are names that have been 

 given to the African forms of the species. 



T. hispida (Kashgar T.). According 

 to M. Lemoine, this new species is from 

 Central Asia. It is certainly distinct, 

 the foliage being of a very glaucous hue. 

 " The leaves are very small and imbricated 



on the stem, and its inflorescences are of a 

 rosy carmine, brighter than in the other 

 species in cultivation" (Lemoine). It 

 flowers in autumn. Syn., T. kaschgarica. 



T. tetrandra is very like T. gallica in 

 general appearance, but, as the name 

 implies, it is distinguished by having four 

 instead of five anthers. It is quite hardy, 

 growing and flowering freely near London. 

 The flowers are pinkish white. Cau- 

 casus. 



Myricaria germanica is very nearly 

 allied to Tamarix, and often figures in 

 nursery catalogues under the latter name. 

 It differs in having ten stamens to each 

 flower. The branches are erect, rather 

 sturdier than in the true Tamarisks, and 

 the leaves are of a pale glaucous hue, the 

 flowers white or rosy in June. It is a 

 native of various parts of Europe and 

 Asia. W. J. B. 



TANACETUM (Tansy). An elegant 

 variety of the common Tansy, T. vulgare, 

 much dwarfer in stature than the type, is 

 the var. crispum. Its emerald-green 

 leaves are smaller, and have a crisped 

 appearance. It is quite hardy, will grow 

 anywhere, and, if the shoots are thinned 

 in spring to give them room to suspend 

 their graceful leaves, the plant looks much 

 better than if the stems are crowded. 

 The flowers should be pinched off before 

 they open. 



T. Herderi, a silvery species, is a 

 characteristic plant for the rock-garden ; 

 the leaves abundant on thick forked stems, 

 which rise a few inches from the surface 

 The bright yellow flowers have a good 

 effect on the silvery foil. Division. 



TAXODIUM (Summer-leafing Cypress). 

 T. disticJntm is a beautiful and 

 stately tree, attaining in its own country,. 



Taxodium distichum. 



Eastern America, Delaware to Florida, a 

 maximum height of 1 50 ft. In ourTountry 

 it is a tree of proved hardiness and excel- 

 lence, though neglected by planters since 

 the Californian and other half hardy 



