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THE ALPINE GARDEN. 
E GRECIAN VIOLET. 
THE Эн of the Grec Viola gracilis 
ie Fig. 109) has cha. 
п an Award of Merit by the Royal 
i in 1908. For planti i 
= prefera ably on 
gavos plenty of sun- 
are the main 
tar r P» ws july renders the soil more 
ad e Viola's needs, but also more 
wor! 
In hot. ‘situations У. ‘gracilis is often burnt to 
erer 
THE GARDENERS’ _ опытов _ 
more diffuse and Speedie e first distinct 
colour variation tie, a tiny, pale, 
rimrose-coloured hich is slightly smalle 
an V. gracilis itself, but a charming little 
plant. Golden Fleece is similar e las 
amed, save that it is a brighter ye an 
od contrast the t Aurea is butter- 
yellow and a favourite wherever grown, but as 
ery beaatiful and 
floriferous 67 боны 
but so far as `І am aw not 
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ts bi of summer, 
the ground level — 
and cooler condi- 
but with the adve 
tions a fresh crop 
Soms as БОО! 
ybrids, ho pace 
have at my disposal ‘in this article, so I will 
confine myself to some of the varieties of V. 
The first to appear was V. g. grandiflora, true 
to type in colour, habit, foliage, and height, = 
larger in all tts and with flowers almos 
round, the ^ butter fly? пў having vanish 
than V. g. Чагы” обе " qe 
b of Lord Nelson however, what 
Fic. 109.—VI0LA GRACILIS : FLOWERS DEEP VIOLET. 
yet been placed in commerce, war conditions 
preventing its appearance at an earlier date. 
Inspiration is a charming, long-stemmed variety, 
with blossoms of a prono ounced lavender tone and 
a bright ti golden eye, which makes it quite a 
distinet contrast to the tin ny, white-eyed V. 
graci 
Violas pes always be арал planted 
in hee ny rock gardens, and the es and 
hybrids or Viola gracilis are аш? on most 
beaut and, efe таа forms pe plant.. P. 5. 
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RAGA LILACINA. 
apice s of the Himalayan species of 
nus Saxifr in seer are few in 
fly 
ове-со. 
the Euro; species with 
this kind of leaf gia mostly white or yellow 
flowers, exceptions being S. me edia = S. Grise- 
bachii, which have sm all s ed flow 
cds of S. lilacina were collec Mod at a high 
аса ion in Hazara, Western Himala a in pe 
d received at Kew in the spring of 1900 fi 
; Gove nt Botanic Garden, Saha: 
butte which fir ab flowered in March, 1904. The 
seeds were received under the e of S. ramu- 
losa, a yellow flowered species, S. lilacina 
does indeed some resemblance in habit 
that species, but differs from it in having rosy- 
lilac flowers. Th Vases are dey end 
short stems; they ort and fleshy, co 
on the upper side, "with 2-4 cha Tk pits = p 
ER the apex. The rosy-lilac flowers are 
born singly on еш ms one inch long, bu 
ech being glandular and furnished with t 
three small leaves 
The plant is quite bred in this country, and 
nder aine treatment, in which 
e roots receive las ту o обаа ге. us rime mas 
ООП pot plant for alpine 
ing early in yog The s Tllustrated. Вон 
an Award of Merit at the quet of the Royal 
Horticultural arja ән on March 2 pr shown 
by Messrs, R. Tucker and Sons, Ox ord 
grow s well u 
oe 
E. 
an 
.THE BULB GARDEN. 
HERM MODACTYLUS. TUBEROSUS. 
WHEN rtis des this as "a 
species of Iris, readily distinguished from every 
other by it an leaves ’’ (see › 
Tris reticulata had yet been introduced 
into cultivation from t ucasus. en t 
first appear the leave these two plants are 
i ost indistinguishable, büt when fully 
will be foun t the leaves of Her- - 
PO ан taper slightly from the base de unn 
while those of € reticulata are of the 
diameter througho 
Another point of similarity between these two 
plants is to be found = the seeds, which, when 
consist of two spheres 
"tha r in à e «че 
Imost to 
the SSE ripens 
inkish brown and ‹ 
brown soea 
nction between a Ме ylus and 
seed-vessel. _ 26 
three divi 
р M 
walls seem to be torn apart at the base, though | 
ue remain joined together as usu а Be. 
“Hrermodactyius tuberosus owes its 
t that its, E 
eid 
Greek word f = u 
io tell us why the tu ers were su 
present the fingers of Hermes. The new X 
proceed fro ae. tips of these tubers. i 
teresting а remember, too, 
р tube! 5 
taly, where it appears е: ей 
hake ES terial to be fairly mon. e 
ecimens of i also t aeu not 
ently from Syria, thoug try- 
е t country- . 
as of Ба; lieve, 
evt 
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