LIST OF iFLOWERS 



winter, while from the middle of summer to the beginning of autumn 

 it is covered with sweet-scented slender flowers, white, tinged with 

 red. L. ■penclymenum, the Woodbine, the native Honeysuckle of 

 England, has several cultivated varieties which are valuable in the 

 garden; such as serotina, which continues long in flower, and belgica 

 (Dutch Honeysuckle), which is a very strong-growing plant. 



LOOSESTRIFE. See Lythrum, 



LOVE-LIES-BLEEDING. See Amaranthus. 



LUNARIA (Honesty). A charming old-fashioned plant — a 

 biennial — ^very useful for the Wild Garden or for rough banks, where 

 its white or purple blossoms and flat silvery seed-pods may be made 

 very effective ; while if the branches bearing these seed-pods be cut at 

 maturity and dried in the sun they form excellent indoor decoration. 

 Seed should be sown in spring or early summer and the seedlings 

 thinned out so as to ensure strong plants for the following year. Its 

 natural soil is chalky ground, but it is perfectly hardy and will thrive 

 almost an3nvhere. 



LUPIN US [Lupine). As a hardy annual the Lupine is a most 

 useful flower, having a large range of colour and being quite easy of 

 culture, while the perennial and tree kind are valuable for the Wild 

 Garden and for rough, sandy banks, as they will thrive in a poor soil. 

 Among the annuals the hybrid L. atrococcineus is, perhaps, the finest, 

 and its long spikes of bright red flowers tipped with white are both 

 showy and graceful, while L. subcarnosus, with its flowers of beautiful 

 blue, shoiold not be neglected. Other kinds which have some in- 

 dividuality are L. luteus, mutahilis and Menziesi, while many of the 

 smaller sorts which are named in catalogues are charming. Of the 

 perennials L. arbor eus (Tree Lupine) is exceUent and its scent de- 

 lightful; the yellow variety is the best, forming a fine bush of two 

 or three feet high and easily raised from seed or by cuttings. L. 

 polyphyllus is a handsome plant, tall and hardy, with fine spikes of 

 flowers varying in colour from blue to purplish-red or with a mixture 

 of purple and white, and it has several good varieties. 



LYCHNIS [Campion). A famfly of hardy perennials, one of 

 which — L. floscuculi — is the Ragged Robin found abundantly in 

 our hedges and ditches, and of which there are two double varieties 

 in cultivation. L. chalcedonica is a good border plant growing from 

 i8 inches to 2 feet high and bearing large dense heads of bright scarlet 

 flowers; there is a white variety, but it is not so good. L. grandijfiora 

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