October ii, 1893.] 



Garden and Forest. 



425 



the stems should be cut off and new ones allowed to spring 

 from the roots. 



The beautiful autumn-flowering Crocuses should be more 

 generally used for planting among grass on edges of lawns, 

 etc. As they come into flower after the grass has practi- 

 cally ceased to grow, and, therefore, requires no further 

 mowing for the year, the graceful blossoms show them- 

 selves to better advantage on their carpet of green than 



Colchicum Sibthorpii and C. speciosum, now in flower, 

 are, perhaps, the two finest species of the genus ; the for- 

 mer has large, handsome, rosy-purple, irregularly faintly 

 tessellated flowers, and the latter varies from clear red-pur- 

 ple to a crimson-purple. Both have flowers much larger 

 than C. variegatum and C. autumnale ; the two latter make 

 excellent subjects for planting for ornament among grass 

 or in the wild-garden. 



Fig. 64. — A Flowering Branch of Ligustrum Ibota. — See page 424. 



they do rising out of the bare soil of the ordinary garden- 

 border. Many species are in fine flower now at Kew ; 

 C. speciosus (blue, with delicate lines on the segments), 

 C. zonatus (delicate rose-lilac, with yellow throat), C. nudi- 

 florus (lilac-purple) and C. cancellatus (white, with yellow 

 throat) are among the most showy at the period of writing 

 these notes. 



Hedysarum coronarium, the so-called French Honey- 

 suckle, is now, and for a long time has been, covered with 

 its dense racemes of deep red pea-shaped flowers. In deep 

 soil and in a sunny situation this makes one of our best 

 hardy perennials and is worth growing even in the most 

 select collections of herbaceous plants. 



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