LIST OF FLOWERS 



hardy and free-flowering kind, bearing a profusion, of rose-tinted 

 flowers and continuing to bloom for a long time, while 0. Deppei, 

 though more tender, is valuable for its beautiful reddish-purple 

 flowers. 



PiEONIA (Peony). Peonies have much increased in popularity 

 of recent years, but in spite of the well-deserved attention they have 

 received the Tree Peony (P. Mouian) is still strangely absent from 

 many gardens. Yet it is a plant of great beauty, both in leaf and 

 blossom, especially in early spring, and it may now be had with 

 flowers in great variety of colour, such as white, scarlet, magenta, 

 rose, salmon, lilac and violet. The essentials for its wejifare are a 

 well-manured soil and plenty of water during the summer, and being 

 of slow growth it does not flower fully until the third year. Sep- 

 tember and October are the best months for planting, and the follow- 

 ing are some of the good varieties, both single and double: Cecil 

 Rhodes, fringed crimson; Lord Kitchener, deep red; Countess Crewe, 

 salmon-pink; and Beatrice Kelway, white, for the single kind; 

 while for doubles there are Eastern Prince, deep scarlet; James 

 Kelway, rose; Reine Elizabeth, pink; ^ if a^awte, reddish purple; and 

 Aphrodite, white. The herbaceous or Chinese Peony, a hardy per- 

 ennial, is more often seen in our gardens, and its many beautiful 

 varieties are most valuable. Like the Tree Peony, it needs a rich 

 soil, but while the Tree Peony requires abundance of sun the herbace- 

 ous Peony is grateful for a little shade. Planting should be done in 

 September, and each plant should have plenty of space in which to 

 develop. Some of the best of the older varieties are Louis Van 

 Houtte, Gloria Patrice, and the double white Grandiflora, while among 

 those of more recent introduction the pure white Bridesmaid, the 

 crimson Meteor, and the rose-coloured Queen of May are recommended 

 for single varieties ; and for the double kind the white Festiva maxima, 

 the sulphur-coloured Salfaterre, the deep crimson Shirhurnian, and 

 the pink Lady Beresford. 



PANSY. Under this name may rightly be included the old- 

 fashioned Heart's-ease and the modern Viola, seeing that the Pansy 

 (Pan's Eye) is the older name for the Heart's-ease (Heart's Eye), and 

 that the Viola is a cross between the Pansy and the Viola Cornuta 

 (the Horned Violet or Horned Pansy). Indeed the term Viola seems 

 a misnomer and has now been superseded by that of Tufted Pansy, 

 indicating the tufted root-growth which has been obtained by means 

 of the crossing. The individual flowers of the Heart's-ease or Garden 

 Pansy are often very handsome, but for general effect and masses of 



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