LAEKSPUE. 



Se/phiiiiKiii funnosum. 



^^^ ^y^'P>" ^RKSPURS may 



l\\rtl.j/"'i.^* to two cla 



flowered; and the rocket, 



be divided in- 

 asses, the annual 

 and the perennial. The 

 figure rejjresents the finest 

 garden plant of the family, 

 and one of the most gene- 

 rally useful and accommo- 

 dating of all known hardy 

 perennials. The annual lark- 

 spurs are the cross-bred 

 descendants of Delphinium 

 ajacis and I), consolida, and 

 they comprise a series of 

 very distinct forms severally 

 known as dwarf, rocket, 

 branching, candelabrum, 



hyacinth - flowered, stock- 

 flowered, and ranunculus- 

 flowered. These are all worth 

 cultivating, but for genera' 

 purposes the best are the 

 branching, the hyacinth- 

 which may be had in all 



colours except shades of yellow, of which the genus 



