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*LOOSESTRIFE, PURPLE (Lythrum Salicaria). Bright purple. June to 

 August; 2 to 8 feet. Best bright-coloured flowers for late summer, 

 for swamps, and wet meadows. Flowers in lax terminal spikes. 



LUPIN (Lupinus perennis). Blue, pink, or white. May, June. I to 2 

 feet. Dry, sandy soils and banks. Pea-like flowers in loose racemes. 



*M ALLOW, SWAMP ROSE (Hibiscus Moscheutos). Rose or white. 

 August, September; 3 to 7 feet. For swamps and brackish 

 marshes. Large, expanded flower, four inches across, sometimes 

 with crimson eye. Best large, rose-coloured flower for wet places. 



MAY APPLE (Podophyllum peltatum). White. May; ij feet. Large, 

 nodding flowers under bold seven and nine lobed leaves, almost 

 round and peltate. Creeping root-stocks. Excellent for early 

 spring effects in moist woodlands. 



*MEADOW RUE, TALL (Thalictrum aquilegi folium). White. July to 

 September; 4 to 5 feet. Moist soils in open or along brooks. Light, 

 feathery balls of flowers and gracefully cut fern-like foliage. Good 

 for cutting too. T. dioicum, I to 2 feet. Purplish flowers in 

 April, May. Woods. 



*MEADOW SWEET (Ulmaria pentapetala). Creamy white. June, July; 

 2 to 4 feet. One of the best free-growing plants for moderately 

 moist soils. Showy terminal corymbs, borne on erect stems, natur- 

 alised in the East. One variety has leaves variegated with yellow. 

 Also a double form. 



*MILKWEED, SWAMP (Asclepias incarnatd). Rose-purple in flat heads, 

 rarely white. July to September; I to 2 feet. Swamps, where 

 grasses fail, and along streams. Most showy, flat-headed plant for 



late summer in such situations. , COMMON (A. Cornuti). Dull, 



grayish pink. Earlier; much less showy; but grows on drier soils. 



MILKWORT, FRINGED (Poly gala paucifolia). Rose. May, June; 6 

 inches. For edges of moist, rich woods, in open places. Pretty 

 purplish foliage and large-fringed flowers. Plant in clumps. 



Ox-EYE DAISY (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum). White with yellow 

 centre. May to November; I to 3 feet. The common daisy of the 

 fields, and invaluable for meadow effects. Parent of Shasta daisy 

 (see p. 228). 



PARTRIDGE BERRY (Mitchella re pens). Evergreen creeping vine. Dark 

 green, with scarlet berries lasting all the winter. Woods. 



