52 THE GAEDENEE'S COMPANION 



about eighteen inches high, with bright yellow 

 flowers and red tinted buds. The white (E. speci- 

 osum is good, eighteen inches high, with creeping 

 roots, and (E. taraxacifolia has a large white flower, 

 the plant trailing on the ground with somewhat 

 weedy-looking, flabby leaves ; but it is very sweet 

 scented, and worth growing. 



Paeony. There are two very distinct kinds of 

 Paeony, the Tree Paeony, P. montan, and the Herb- 

 aceous Paeony. The former are magnificent 

 plants, unfolding their beautiful leaves as early 

 as April, and giving a shower of enormous 

 blooms in May or early June ; they live for a very 

 long time when once established. I am well 

 acquainted with one that is at least thirty-seven 

 years old, and is still giving a mass of enormous 

 rose-pink flowers every spring. They are con- 

 sidered rather tender, but I have not found them 

 so ; a west aspect probably suits them best, so that 

 their early budding in April may not be injured by 

 the spring frosts. 



The Herbaceous Paeonies come in later, during 

 June and July ; they are all very beautiful plants, 

 but the double varieties last longer in flower than 

 the single. They look very well in mixed borders, 



