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FLOWERS OF GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE 
(mucronate ); stipules broad, lance-shaped. Flowers pale blue in long 
racemes; June to September. There is a white-flowered form, var. 
aZbiflora, sometimes known as G. persica. 
G. orientalis (Eastern). Rootstalk creeping; stem 3 feet, flexuous, 
unbranched. Leaflets more ovate; stipules broad, egg-shaped. Flowers 
violet-blue; June to August. 
G. biloba (two-lobed). Stem 3 feet. Leaflets cut at the tip into 
two lobes. Flowers pale purple ; June to September. 
Culture The species of Gcdega will succeed in any garden soil, 
but to treat them properly they should be planted in rich 
loam, in a sunny border where they may remain undisturbed for several 
years—taking them up only when the clumps have grown too large and 
division is desirable. Where there is room the large clump should be 
allowed. Besides division of the roots, the plants may be propagated by 
sowing Beed in the open border in March or April. 
Description of The upper portion of a flowering stem of Galega ojjicin- 
piate 66. alls j s shown together with one of the larger lower leaves. 
Fig. 1 is an enlarged representation of the flower, and Fig. 2 a section 
through the same. 
LUPINES 
Natural Order Leguminos.®. Genus Lupinus 
Lupinits (Latin, lupus , a wolf or destroyer; these plants being supposed 
to be so ravenous that they exhausted the soil). A genus of which 
about eighty species have been described, but very few are in cultivation. 
They are hardy or half-hardy annual or perennial herbs, sub-shrubs and 
(a few) shrubs. The leaves are compound, of 5 or more leaflets arranged 
digitately (rarely trefoils). The flowers are of the same papilionaceous 
type as in the four genera last described, and are usually arranged in 
erect racemes. The calyx is deeply two-lobed ; and the stamens united 
into a tube. Most of the species are American; a few annuals, natives of 
the Mediterranean region, being the sole representatives of the genus in 
the Old World. Under cultivation many beautiful hybrids have been 
produced which have to a very great extent superseded the original 
species, though nearly all are worthy of a place in our gardens. 
Principal specieB Lupinus arboreus (tree-like). Tree Lupin. Stem 
shrubby, 6 feet. Leaflets slender, lance-shaped. Flowers 
yellow, fragrant; throughout the summer. Native of North America 
(introduced 1793). 
