Hardy Exotic Plants for Naturalization. 45 



speak of them separately. As regards all the other species 

 likely to be met with in gardens, and including also any 

 plants of the plumy Meadow-rue, they may be planted 

 among any coarse herbaceous vegetation. For the most 

 part they attain a height of three or four feet, and are as 

 easily propagated by division as the common balm. 



Fetid Meadow Hue. Thalictrum fxtidum. Europe. 

 Herbaceous perennial ; 9 inches to one and a half feet 

 high ; brownish ; summer ; division or seed. — A plant 

 not worthy of cultivation on account of its flowers ; but 

 having very gracefully cut leaves, very like those of our 

 own Lesser Meadow-rue — and resembling, when grown 

 on established plants, those of the Stove Maiden-hair fern 

 {Adiantum cuneatum), it deserves to be grown, as does also 

 the Lesser Meadow-rue, for the beauty of its leaves. It 

 is, like that plant, hardy enough to grow in almost any 

 soil or position, but will be seen to greatest advantage on 

 open spots or banks with a dwarf vegetation of late 

 spring and early summer flowers. In such places tufts 

 of it ought to look as well as plants of the Maiden- 

 hair fern do among conservatory flowers. It is, however, 

 only just to the British Thalictrum minus to say that it 

 produces a very similar effect and quite as good, so that 

 anybody possessing it need not seek our present subject. 



Plumy Meadow Rue. Thalictrum aquilegifolium. 

 Middle and Southern Europe. Herbaceous perennial; 

 3 to 4 feet ; whitish rose or purplish ; summer ; division. 



Will grow in almost any soil or position, but prefers a 



somewhat humid spot. The variety with purplish instead 

 of yellow stamens is a pretty one, and both are well 

 suited for a position near wood walks. 



