March 17, 1897.] 



Garden and Forest. 



105 



1. A branch of a flowering plant, natural size. 



Fig. 13. — Cornus asperifolia. — See'page 104. 



A branch of a fruiting plant, natural size. 3. A flower ."enlarged. 

 5. A stone, enlarged. 6. A winter branchlet, natural size. 



l.gA fruit, laid open transversely ,'enlarged. 



and now known as Scilla Sibirica multiflora. The natural habit 

 of this flower is so well fixed that it still continues to vie with 

 the Snowdrops for first place. The flowers are brighter in 

 color than the typical S. Sibirica, which follows it in flower, 

 and they are very freely produced. A good-sized colony of 

 these plants is about as effective as anything of this season. 



All these flowers, though so frail, seem quite happy in the 

 hard conditions under which they have to struggle in an 

 American winter, with its daily changes, which, it is to be 

 hoped, are not as trying to them as to mankind, but my sym- 

 pathy is always excited toward the early Irises, which often 

 only appear to be buried under the snow. Experience has 



