50 The Wild Garden. 



Perennial Larksptir. Delphinium. Gardens are 

 now enriched by a multitude of beautiful and vigorous 

 varieties of perennial Delphiniums, and new kinds of the 

 most delicate and attractive appearance are annually- 

 raised. Growing from 2 to nearly 6 feet high, per- 

 fectly hardy and thriving in ordinary soil, any of these 

 plants which may be spared from the garden should be 

 planted out in half-wild places amidst herbaceous vegeta- 

 tion. They would be particularly appropriate in wide 

 open spaces in woods or near wood-walks, associated with 

 Pseonies, Asters, and plants of like stature. 



Variegated Monkshood. Aconitum variegatum. 

 Southern Europe. Herbaceous perennial ; 4 to 6 feet ; 

 purple and white ; summer ; division. — -Makes noble 

 tufts in positions recommended for the Delphiniums, 

 and is suited for association with the most vigorous and 

 showy herbs. Other kinds of Monkshood are ornamental, 

 but they are all so frightfully poisonous that even this 

 one is perhaps better avoided. 



Wliite-flowered Pseony. Pcsonia albiflora. Siberia. 

 Herbaceous perennial ; 2 to 3 feet ; white ; early 

 summer ; seed or division. — Margins of shrubberies, 

 wood-walks, etc. From this species have sprung many of 

 the noble varieties of Paeony which are now in cultivation. 



Offleinal Pseony. Pceonia officinalis and vars. Europe. 

 Herbaceous perennial ; 3 to 4 feet ; red ; division. — Rough 

 rocky places, banks, and edges of woods and copses. 



Pine-leaved Pseony. Pcsonia tenuifolia. Siberia. 

 Herbaceous perennial ; i to i| feet ; red ; early summer; 

 division. — Rough rockwork, margins of low shrubberies, 

 rocky places, banks, and glades. 



