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will also enjoy a bed of manure beneath 

 the roots, and put below the soil in which 

 the young plants are first placed, and is 

 best planted in spring, the roots inserted 

 6 or 8 inches in the soil, and the young 

 plants well watered. It is best planted 

 where the shoots may ramble among the 

 spray of shrubs, or trailers ; and it is 

 much better to let them have their own 

 way, than to resort to any kind of staking 

 or support, except that afforded by shrubs 

 or low trees near. It ripens its pretty 

 blue seed in early autumn, and the seeds 

 come up the next spring, if sown in 

 light sandy mould in pots, and placed in 

 a greenhouse or pit. 



Tropseolum tuberosum. A handsome 

 trailing plant, but tender on cold soils, 

 and a shy bloomer in many places where 

 it has been tried. It is a tall climber with 

 succulent stems, leaves about 2 inches or 3 

 inches across, and rather small red and 

 orange flowers. The colour of the flowers 

 is beautiful, the calyx, with the exception 

 of the green tip of the spur, being a deep 

 red ; and the entire petals, which scarcely 

 exceed in length the lobes of the calyx, 

 are of a rich golden-yellow, veined with 

 black. Plant in warm loam on the sunny 

 side of a rock. 



TULIPA (Tulip). Much, attention 

 is now being called to these splendid 

 plants ; not merely old garden kinds, 

 but wild kinds from many countries, 

 including countries not far away, 

 as Savoy. Though they do not re- 

 quire rock-garden cultivation as a rule, 

 still, so long as kinds are new and rare, 

 the variety of surface and aspect of 

 the rock-garden will often give us a 

 home for them until they become 

 plentiful. 



Tulipa celsiana (Dwarf Yellow Tulip). 

 A species having slightly concave glaucous 

 leaves, the largest nearly an inch across, 

 and yellow flowers, smaller than those of 

 the common Tulips, and, when in clumps 

 and fully open, sometimes reminding one 

 of a yellow Crocus ; the outside of the 

 petals is tinted with reddish-brown and 

 green. It begins to flower about the first 



of May, and usually attains a height 

 of 6 to 8 and sometimes 12 inches. 

 The bulbs emit stolons after flowering. 

 Southern Europe. 



Tulipa Clusiana (Clusius's Tulip). 

 Usually our Tulips are great, bold, showy 

 flowers, but in this species we have one, 

 humble in stature, and modestly pretty. 

 The bulbs are small, the stem reaching 

 from 6 to 9 inches high, seldom more, 

 and sometimes flowering when little more 

 than 3 inches high. The flower is small, 

 with a purplish spot at the base of each 

 petal ; the three outer divisions of the 

 petals stained with rose, the three inner 

 ones of a pure transparent white. A 

 native of the South of Europe, a little 

 more delicate than most of its family, 

 and requiring to be planted in good, light, 

 vegetable earth, in a warm, sheltered, and 

 well-drained position, to succeed to per- 

 fection. Although so small, it will be the 

 better of being planted rather deeply, 

 say at from 6 to 9 inches, and of being 

 placed in some snug spot, where it need 

 not be disturbed too often. 



TUNICA SAXIFRAGA (Rock 

 Catchfly). A small plant of the Pink 

 order, with narrow leaves and wiry 

 stems, bearing elegant rosy flowers, 

 small, but numerous, thriving without 

 particular care on most soils, and 

 forming tufts a few inches high. A 

 native of stony places on the Pyrenees 

 and Alps, often descending into the 

 low country, where I have found it on 

 the tops of walls. It will grow in like 

 positions in this country, and is a neat, 

 free-growing plant for the rock-garden. 

 It is easily raised from seed, and 

 thrives in poor soil. 



UVULARIA. Slender perennials 

 allied to the Solomon's Seal, bearing 

 yellow blossoms. There are four 

 cultivated species, U. chinensis, grandi- 

 flora, puberula, and sessilifolia. Of 

 these, U. grandiflora is the finest 

 plant; it attains a height of from 

 1 foot to 2 feet, and the numerous 



