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and moist. They are bulbous, and need to be planted 

 in autumn. The flowers form a neat cone on short, 

 stiff stems, a few inches above the foliage, which keeps 

 close to the ground. Perhaps the most attractive 

 variety is Conicum Heavenly Blue, which has bright 

 sky blue flowers and forms a lovely group. 



MYOSOTIDIUM NOBILE.— The New Zealand 

 Forget-me-not has aroused a good deal of interest 

 among flower lovers, partly from its undoubted beauty, 

 partly from the difficulty which attends its culture. 

 It is a herbaceous perennial, with blue. Forget-me-not- 

 like flowers, borne on stems about eighteen inches high 

 in spring. The glistening green leaves are heart 

 shaped. It likes shady places and moist soil, such as 

 peat and leaf-mould, with abundance of sand. It may 

 be propagated by careful division in spring. 



MYOSOTIS (Forget-me-not). — The Forget-me- 

 nots are among the gems of the springtide, and, common 

 though they are, they must not be despised, for their 

 tufty habit and dense masses of exquisite blue flowers 

 make them charming alike on the rockery and in the 

 garden. Easily raised from seed, a stock of plants can be 

 raised every year where bedding is the object in view, and 

 the old plants thrown away when they become dingy 

 after flowering. Perhaps the most intimate associations 

 of Forget-me-nots are with the waterside, but some 

 species will thrive in light, dryish soil on hillsides, and do 

 not object to chalky ground, on which the flowers are 

 rich and sparkling to a degree. The following are the 

 principal species and varieties : Alpestris, which is shown 

 in one of the coloured plates with Aronicum glaciale 



