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blooms, accompanied with bracts as 

 long as the pedicels. Leaves, narrow, 

 linear, smooth, longer than the flower- 

 stem. Native of S, Europe, and 

 especially of the Pyrenees. Bor- 

 ders, the rock-garden, and the bulb- 

 firden ; best in deep sandy soil, 

 eparation of the bulbs. 

 Hyacinthus orientalis (Common 

 Hyacinth}. The parent of our popular 

 Hyacinths ; 8 in. to 1 ft. high. Flowers, 

 in spring ; very fragrant, blue in the 

 original type, but varying much in 

 colour under cultivation, in a cluster 

 of 6 to 15 blooms. Leaves, lanceolate, 

 grooved, of a dark green. Bulb round, 

 of medium size. Native of S. Europe 



and the Levant. The varieties 



deserve to be much more commonly 

 grown in the open air, as they are 

 perfectly hardy. Planted deeply, the 

 crown of the bulb 6 or 8 inches or 

 more under the surface, they flower 

 strongly year after year if in good 

 sandy loam. 



Hypericum calycinum (Great-flowered 

 H.) A well known and very showy 

 low trailing shrub ; about 1 ft. high. 

 Flowers, nearly all summer; bright 

 yellow, 3 or 4 in. across, 5 or 6 in a 

 corymb; sepals about ^ i n l n g 

 roundish ; stamens long and slender. 

 Leaves, nearly stalkless, large, ovate 

 or oblong, blunt, smooth, when young 

 they are of a pale green, but when 

 old of a very dark green, and some- 

 what glaucous at the back. Southern 

 Europe, naturalized in several parts 

 of Britain. Best suited for natu- 

 ralization ; it grows freely and in- 

 creases rapidly in any ordinary soil. 



Hypericum Coris (Heath-leaved H.) 

 A dwarf evergreen shrub with a 

 slender branching stem ; 4 to 6 in. 

 high. Flowers, in summer; bright 

 yellow, f in. across ; margin of calyx 

 dotted with small black prominences. 

 Leaves, very small, linear, with revo- 

 lute edges, sessile, in closely- set 



whorls. Cape of Good Hope. The 



rock-garden, in well-drained soil. Cut- 

 tings and division. 



Hypericum nummularium (Money, 

 wort H.} A diminutive perennial, 

 forming neat, compact tufts, with 

 very slender stems ; 3 in. high. 

 Flowers, in summer ; yellow, f in. 

 across ; margin of calyx toothed and 

 tinged with purplish red. Leaves, op- 

 posite, nearly round, almost sessile, 

 about \ in. broad, close together. 

 Root long and wiry, much branched 

 and very fibrous. South of Europe. 



The rock-garden, in well-drained 



soil. Division and seed. 



Iberidella rotundifolia (Round-leaved 

 I.) Thlaspi rotundifolium. A dwarf 

 evergreen herb, with prostrate or as- 

 cending stems, and smooth, thick, 

 leathery leaves of a glaucous olive 

 green ; 3 to 6 in. high. Flowers, in 

 early summer ; rosy - lilac, sweet- 

 scented, freely produced, in terminal 

 racemes. Leaves, somewhat fleshy, 

 quite entire ; lower ones stalked, obo- 

 vate ; those of the stem almost stalk- 

 less, ovate-oblong. A native of the Alps 

 of Switzerland, Savoy, and Austria. 



The rock-garden, among the 



dwarfest alpine plants, in any lightish 

 soil. Seed or division. 



Iberis Bubani(.Z?M&an,'s Candytuft). 

 A neat dwarf plant, forming compact 

 tufts, nearly 6 in. high. Flowers, in 

 summer ; pink, in corymbose clusters. 

 Leaves, spathulate, lobed, very deep 

 glossy green, forming dense rosettes, 

 covered with a profusion of branching 



flower - stems. Pyrenees. The 



rock-garden, in well-drained soil, and 

 among dwarf plants. Division or seed. 



Iberis corifolia (Coris-leaved I.) 

 The neatest and dwarfest of the 

 Iberises, very near or perhaps a dwarf 

 form of /. saxatilis, 3 or 4 in. high. 

 Flowers, in early spring ; white, in 

 corymbs. Leaves, linear, entire, blunt, 

 smooth ; stems decumbent ; tufts 

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