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The spotted dead nettle, Lamium maculatum (H. G.) is another 
of our pink April flowers, continuing along into a ge white- 
spotted leaves. Pulmonaria saccharata (H. G.; B. 3), with 
its white-blotched leaves, should not be — 
A good yellow flower for this month is the leopard’s-bane, 
Doronicum ie acum (C. B. 8). Capnoides nobilis (W. B. S.), 
with pale yellow flowers and finely cut foliage, is another. These 
do well a sunny places, while Viola pubescens, a wood violet, 
may be used in our shade bed. 
Blue flowers for this month are scarce. For a shaded situation 
we can use Hepatica (H.G.) the liverleaf, and Viola palmata. For 
a sunny place, bluets or innocents, Houstonia coerulea, may be 
tried. It is rather difficult to hold, however, and has but a short 
flowering seaso 
urple may be brought into the shade garden with the purple 
wake robin, Trillium erectum, and into the sunny places by 
Aubretia Hendersoni, the false wall-cress. 
May 
As the season advances, our selection grows. In this last 
month of spring, in addition to the color we get from tulips and 
daffodils, many other plants present themselves for our considera- 
the blue or purple flowers the forget-me-not, Myosotis 
pie (C. B. 1), does best in a shaded situation. A number of 
the irises come in this month. The stately German iris, Iris 
germanica (W. B.S.; C. B. 2), is one of the best of these, ge its 
rich purple flowers. Iris sanguinea (C. B. 2, 3, 5,6; W 
with its crimson bracts from which the purple flowers spring, is 
effective in its erect tall, habit, and is useful to carry upright lines 
into the planting. Quite in contrast with this, also with purple 
flowers, is the dwarf iris, as pumila (C. B. 2, 6, 8), one of the 
first to appear. Another dwarf iris is I. cristata (W. B 
C.), with dainty blue flowers. With taller stems anid larger 
flowers, also blue, is Iris tectorum (C. B. 3.; W. B.S.), the roof 
iris of Japan, a fine plant. Still another is Iris versicolor (C. B&, 5) 
our native wild flag, and its rosy colored form, var. rosea (C. B. 3). 
