FLOWERS OF GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE 
From other well-known species grown in gardens we select the 
following:— 
A. CiERULEA (sky-blue). 2 to 3 feet; large flowered, sepals long, 
dark blue; petals pale blue, almost white; spur long, slender; April 
to July. From Rocky Mountains (1864). 
A. canadensis (Canadian). 1 to 2 feet; small, narrow flowered, 
brick-red, spur straight, short; April to June. 
A. chrysantha (Golden-Flower). 3 to 4 feet; sepals pale yellow, 
spreading; petals richer yellow, with very long diverging spurs; May 
to August. 
A. FORMOSA (handsome). 2 to 4 feet; very showy; sepals vermilion 
with greenish tip; petals red with mouth of tube yellow; spurs rather 
short, straight; May to September. The var. califomica hybrida origin¬ 
ating from formosa has the flower orange-yellow with long orange-red 
spurs. Native of West North America. 
All the foregoing do well in the border; the following are well suited 
for the rock-garden, being more alpine, and dwarfish in habit :■— 
A. alpina (alpine). 8 to 12 inches; flowers large, deep blue or 
blue and white; spurs short, slightly incurved; May. Swiss Alps (1831). 
A. GLANDULOSA (glandular). 8 to 12 inches; showy spring bloomer; 
sepals lilac-blue, petals white, spur very short, incurved. The var. 
jucunda is smaller, and shortlived. Siberia (1822). 
A. pyrenaica (Pyrenean). 9 to 12 inches; bright lilac-blue; spur 
long, slender, slightly incurved; leaves small; June to August. Pyrenees 
(1818). 
A sibirica (Siberian). 12 inches; lilac; petals sometimes white 
near edges; spur stout, strongly incurved; June to August. Siberia 
(1806). 
The dwarf form of A. vulgaris , already mentioned, also makes a 
good plant for the rockery. 
Cultivation -All these species, their varieties, and the endless and 
nameless hybrids that arise in every garden where 
several species are grown openly, are plants suited for ornamental 
gardening. The free and elegant manner in which the flowering stems 
rise above the light leafy base renders them graceful objects wherever 
placed. They thrive in any fairly good soil, though the delicate kinds 
require for successful treatment sandy loam, manure or leaf-mould. They 
like a sunny position, and a fair amount of moisture, but the drainage 
must be good. Special sorts should be propagated by root-divisions in 
February. Seed should be sown, as soon as it is ripe, thinly in pans. 
The seedlings may be planted out where they are to flower as soon 
