Part II. ACHILLEA— ACIS— ADONIS. 123 



Another white-flowered Achillea {A. umbellatd) has lately 

 been introduced to gardeners ; it is smaller than the preceding, 

 and useful as a silvery edging plant, but the flowers are not 

 ornamental, and I am not certain of its hardiness. 



ACHILLEA TOMENTOSA. — Downy Yarrow. 



This is one of the little tufted plants that help to form the car- 

 pets of silver whereon large and handsome horned Violets and 

 Gentians display their charms on the Alps, itself sending up in 

 due time flat corymbs of bright yellow flowers. On elevated 

 situations it is very dwarf and downy, but in rich soil in gardens 

 it rises to six, nine, and twelve inches high. It is a good plant 

 for the front margins of mixed borders, and also for the rock- 

 work. A native of the European Alps, easily grown in ordinary 

 soil, and readily increased by division. 



ACIS KOI^XSyDSKlSl^.— Autumnal A. 



A VERY slender-leaved little bulb, with stems rising three or four 

 inches high, and bearing a couple of flowers, that may be de- 

 scribed as delicate pink snowdrops, drooping elegantly on short 

 reddish footstalks, of a deep-red colour round the seed-vessel, 

 and blooming in autumn before the leaves appear. It is a true 

 gem for the rockwork, where it should be planted in a warm 

 soil and sunny position, sheltered with a few stones, and on which 

 it would look very well springing from a carpet of delicate, feeble- 

 rooting Sedum or other dwarf plant. I have never seen it in 

 nurseries except about Edinburgh, and first met with it in the 

 late Mr. Borrer's garden in Sussex. Where the soil is of a fine 

 sandy nature, it will thrive as a border plant, but is as yet so 

 rare as to be worthy of the best position and care. A native 

 of Spain and Southern Europe. 



ADONIS VEENALIS.— F^rwa/^. 



This, as regards size of flower, is the queen of all the Buttercup 

 and Globeflower race. Early in May, its flowers, two to three 

 and even four inches across on strong plants, spring from 

 masses of light green finely cut leaves. Had Wordsworth 

 seen a healthy plant of this in fullblow, he would never have 

 supposed the little Celandine had sat for its portrait to the 



