72 MY GARDEN 



base; Moonlight, primrose; Mrs. Moon, bright yellow; 

 Oriana, ruby-pink; Picotee, white with pink edges; The 

 Fawn, rosy-fawn, and vitellina, cream. 



Besides the Tulips and Irises the first two weeks of 

 May bring a number of good perennials to grace the 

 garden. The old Bleeding-heart (Dicentra syn. Dielytra 

 spectabilis), whose blossoms look like some old-fashioned 

 confection, comes before the Daffodils are past and 

 associates charmingly with some of the pale star varie- 

 ties. Few old gardens are without a spreading clump of 

 this old-fashioned perennial, and new gardens should not 

 be without it, for even without the wandlike stems 

 laden with dangling pink candy hearts, its beautiful 

 foliage should win it a place in every gathering of choice 

 plants. Like Pseonies and Fraxinella it likes to be left 

 in peace year after year, without division, or other 

 kindly meddling. Its dwarf er relatives, Dicentra eximea 

 and formosa, with blossoms of a deeper colour lasting 

 the greater part of the summer, should bear it company, 

 and even that tiny elfin Dutchman's Breeches, of our 

 own woods, D. Cucullaria, so fetching in its creamy 

 "breeches" and feathery green, is worthy a bit of space 

 in some shadowy corner. 



Another old friend is blossoming in these early days 

 of May and is too often passed by nowadays for more 

 striking novelties. This is Honesty (Lunaria biennis), a 

 plant of many names, showing that many have cared for 

 it as it travelled down through the ages; and so hung 



