October 17, 1894.J 



Garden and Forest 



415 



when the two were grown side by side. The new variety 

 is darker in foliage and somewhat dwarfer and more 

 compact than the ordinary form, but its special merit was 

 brought out by the prolonged drought of the past summer. 

 For a long time during the hot and dry weather plants of 

 the old form would drop their flowers — at least, the corolla, 

 and often the calyx as well— almost as fast as they were 

 produced, leaving only bare and unsightly stems, while 



Lychnis Flos-cuculi. — What seems to be a variety of the 

 well-known Ragged Robin was sent out by some Euro- 

 pean nurserymen two or three years ago burdened with 

 the name of Plenissima semperflorens. The plant is 

 apparently as hardy as the type here, and it blooms con- 

 stantly in the open air from midsummer onward. The 

 flowers, in very open terminal panicles, are lightly carried 

 on thin stems eighteen inches long ; they are smaller than 



Fig. 65. — Ilex triflora, n. sp. — See page 414. 



the newer variety, although, of course, checked in its 

 growth, persisted in displaying abundant flowers through- 

 out the heat and drought. For flower-lovers who lack an 

 abundant supply of water for bedding-plants, this power 

 of endurance through such adverse conditions as those of 

 the past summer is a quality well worth considering when 

 selecting plants in the spring. 



those of the type, but quite double, and of a singularly 

 deep rose color. The loose clusters on the arching stems 

 are very graceful, and a dozen of them in a slender vase 

 appear to very good advantage. The plant resembles the 

 type, having very narrow and almost linear leaves, and, 

 besides its value in the border, it is said to be useful for 

 winter-flowering-. 



