SHRUBBERIES AND FLOWER-GARDENS. CHAP. 



causes them to be wealdy. This should be avoided by 

 all means, as it often causes a fine root to blow badly. 

 Of the narcissus kind, the polyanthus narcissuses are, in 

 my opinion, far the most to be preferred for glasses. 



LIST OF FLOWERS. 



413. ACONITE, or monk's-hood Lat. Aconitum napellus. 



Fr. Aconit napel. A perennial plant from Germany ; 

 which has been long known in English gardens, and is 

 still cultivated, notwithstanding the warnings of MILLER 

 and many others, who produce evidence of the poisonous 

 effects of the plant in all its parts j and not only poison- 

 ous when eaten, but even when injudiciously smelled to. 

 There are several sorts of ACOXIT, but I shall only men- 

 tion this one. Its varieties are, deep blue, white, and red. 

 It flowers in the months of May and June, the flowers 

 coming in a spike at the top of a stalk of three feet 

 high. The leaves are of a shining green, and very much 

 divided. It makes a considerable show in the larger 

 flower-borders 5 likes almost any good soil j and is pro- 

 pagated either by parting the roots in the autumn, or by 

 sowing the seeds in the spring in the flower-nursery. 



414. ADONIS, pheasant's eye. Lat. Adonis annua. Fr. 

 Adonide aunuelle.rAn annual plant, which inhabits the 

 environs of Paris, and a great part of France and 

 Europe j and is generally found in fields, and places 

 which are at all wet. The flower is of a deep red, and 



