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Figaro, dark red and orange; Germania, vivid scarlet; Solfaterr&, 

 pale yellow; and Aurore, with large orange-coloured flowers. 



MORINA {Whorl Flower). M. longifoUa is a hardy perennial 

 remarkable for its beautiful thistle-like foliage, and in a deep, moist 

 soil it will readily attain a height of 2 or 3 feet, bearing long spikes 

 of rose-coloured flowers. It is easily raised from seed by sowing in 

 light, sunny soil and transplanting the seedlings to richer and 

 moister ground. 



MULLEIN. See Verbascum. 



MUSCARI {Grape Hyacinth). A spring-flowering bulb which is 

 eminently suited for the Rock Garden or for rough, grassy banks, 

 being quite hardy and ready to grow in any ordinary soil; it is also 

 useful for window-boxes, where its gracefuUy-poised flowers render it 

 very attractive. M. racemosum, the most famUiar kind, is valuable 

 for its hardihood and rapid increase; it bears clusters of dark purple 

 flowers. M. botryoides is another favourite, and its varieties — album 

 and 'pallidum — are excellent, especially the latter with its clusters of 

 delicate sky-blue flowers. M. moschafum is prized for its delicious 

 scent — ^it is commonly known as the Musk Hyacinth — while M. 

 comosum monstrosum, the Feather Hyacinth, is remarkable for its 

 clusters of purple flowers, having some resemblance to waving feathers. 

 M. conicum is wonderfully profuse in bloom, and its rich violet-blue 

 flowers are charming in their fragrance. AU these are hardy and 

 may readily be increased by division of the bulbs every three or four 

 years. '' 



MUSK. See Mimulus. 



MYOSOTIS {Forget-me-not). A hardy perennial well known in 

 every garden, sowing itself freely, and a most useful spring flower. 

 M, dissitiflora, an early-flowering kind v^ith large clear blue flowers, 

 is that generally seen in gardens and is an excellent variety. 

 M.. palustris, which grows wild in our dftches and on the banks of 

 our rivulets, is also useful for garden cultivation in moist soil, while 

 M. sylvatica, the Wood Forget-me-not, is valuable for the Wild Garden 

 and in plantations or copses. M. alpestris is a dwarf variety, com- 

 pact and cushion-like in habit and eminently suited for the Alpine 

 or Rock Garden. There are varieties of white and of rose colour as 

 well as of blue. 



NARCISSUS {Daffodil}. Of aU hardy bulbs the Narcissi are 

 the most valuable for the garden, and among the many beautiful 

 flowers which we have in spring they seem indispensable. Although 



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