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PLUM. Double Flowering, Japanese (Prunus Iriflora, sometimes 

 called P. trilobd). A very handsome shrub or small tree bearing pink 

 flowers resembling pink roses; leaves finely serrated; fruit pointed, with 

 firm flesh and a small stone. Culture the same as Crab-Apple. 



RHODORA (R. Canadensis) . 1-2 ft. A low shrub, native to cold wet 

 ground with handsome rose-pink or purplish-pink flowers that appear 

 in clusters before the pale, rather hairy leaves. Culture the same as 

 Pinxter Flower to which it is allied. Transplant in spring. 



ROSEMARY. Wild, see Andromeda. 



MAY 

 PINK PERENNIALS 



^ETHIONEMA (A. grandi flora), ij ft. Makes a spreading bush bear- 

 ing pink flowers in crowded racemes. Requires full sun and lime in the 

 soil. Propagated by seeds and cuttings. May to August. 



AQUILEGIA, see Columbine. 



BLEEDING HEART (Dicentra spectabUis). 2 ft. Has very handsome 

 foliage and curved terminal racemes of pink flowers with two blunt 

 spurs. Give a rich deep soil, moisture, full sun and space to spread 

 itself. Propagated by dividing crowns early in spring or cutting the 

 fleshy roots in short lengths and starting them in sandy soil. 



CAMPION. Alpine (Lychnis alpina). i ft. Lower leaves form a 

 tuft from which rise close pink heads of pink flowers in. across, borne 

 on stems from 6 in. to i ft. high. Give full sun and rich soil. Propagate 

 by seeds or division of the root. 



COLUMBINE (Aquilegia vulgaris, var. rosea). 2-3 ft. The Colum- 

 bine comes in the loveliest tones of palest rose, salmon pink, deep pink, 

 old rose and rose spurs with white crown, but it is impossible to secure 

 these with any exactness from seed, owing to the cross-fertilizing by 

 insects. Division of the root, or covering the plant during the flower- 

 ing season is the only way to perpetuate the stock. For culture, see 

 Columbine, White Per., May. 



DICENTRA, see Bleeding Heart. 



EREMURUS (E. robustus). 8 ft. Leaves 4 in. wide make a huge 

 tufted rosette several feet across, from which rises a tall scape from 

 4-8 ft. high ending in a terminal raceme of handsome peach-colored 

 flowers resembling the Hyacinth. It dies to the ground after blooming, 



