20 ANTIRRHINUMS AND PENTSTEMONS 



all. Wild Rose, Peach Blossom, Fascination, such are 

 the names of others in various delicate tints. Cottage 

 Maid, an erstwhile favourite, and Nelrose, which was 

 hailed with delight some few years ago when it arrived 

 from America, are superseded by better varieties; but 

 although many more names might be mentioned and 

 other varieties extolled, one may, with the addition of a 

 rich yellow such as Golden Gem, claim to have at any 

 rate a representative collection when those here referred 

 to are installed. As time goes on some will be outclassed 

 by newcomers, and it will be all to the good of the cult 

 if old ones are discarded in favour of their superiors, else 

 the too rapid multiplication of names will but lead to 

 confusion and bewilderment. 



Possibilities of Future Development. 



For a long time to come it will afford occupation to 

 keen fanciers to still further improve Antirrhinums by 

 means of systematic selection of seed-raised plants. It 

 occurs to one, however, that there may be scope and 

 possibility for quite new developments in the direction 

 of real hybridising with other species of the genus 

 Antirrhinum. 



We have those delightful little trailers beloved of 

 Alpine plantsmen, A. asarina and A. glutinosa, which 

 make dainty little plants to drape the face of boulders on 

 the rockery. It should be worth effort to work upon 

 these with the rich crimson, the clear pink, and the flame- 

 coloured Tom Thumb varieties of A. majus, for the 

 production of procumbent or semi-trailing varieties with 

 rich and brilliant colours would provide new and won- 

 drously beautiful plants for wall-gardens, rockeries, and 

 for narrow borders where ground covering is more to 

 be desired than height. 



Some of the Linarias, closely akin to the Antirrhinum, 



