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winter aconite, comes in this windy blustery month. The 
Christmas rose, 1. slleborus niger, with white flowers, or the variety 
atrorubens with purple flowers, also braves the unfavorable 
conditions and par forth its flowers. So we must look to the 
snowdrops, the glory-of-the-snow, the Siberian aie and the 
early crocuses for our material for this season of the year 
April 
Now we have more material at our disposal, for spring has a 
firmer grasp. Flowers, which in the greater abundance of more 
showy things of the later season, would not attract, are now He 
welcome. Let us consider some of these, grouping them 
color. First the whites. Among these, for a partially meee) 
place, is the dainty little wind anemone, Anemone quinquefolia, 
the flowers sometimes with a rosy blush. similar situations 
we have the rue anemone, Syndesmon ie (H. G.). 
Co Cucullaria, Dutchman’s breeches, is another with the 
Sagal eas flowers which have suggested its common n 
we may add the spring beauty, Claytonia virginica, 
H. G. ne oe delicately penciled with rae Another is the 
nodding wake robin, Trillium cernuum. The blood-root, San- 
guinaria canadensis (H. G.), also comes in pee with its pay 
flowers, appearing before the leaves are fully expanded. 
shy little liverleaf, Hepatica (H. G.), in its white-flowered ee 
may be used. These are delightful little for the 
cata ae requiring partial shade. For a sunny situation 
there is nothing better than the rock cress, dia. alpina. This 
has a luxuriant growth, and is a mass of the purest white flowers. 
It comes in both a single (H. G.; C. B. 3, 5, 6) and a double 
(C. B. 9) form, the latter being more lasting. During the 
summer it is attractive in its gray-green foliage. 
Among the red or pink flowers for this month we have our 
common wild columbine, Agutlegia canadensis (H. G), thriving 
in either sun or shade. For sunny situations are the wild pink, 
Silene caroliniana and Saxifraga crassifolia (H. G.), the latter 
with ample fleshy leaves and large masses of pink blossoms, the 
foliage remaining in good condition throughout the summer. 
