'26o ALPItfE FLOWERS. Part 11. 



CENOTHERA MARGINATA.— Za;*^^ Evening Primrose. 



AXTHOUGH a humble plant — even when vigorous not more than 

 six to twelve inches high — this blooms as nobly as any luxuriant 

 native of the tropics, the individual flowers being four to five 

 inches across, of the purest white, changing, as the flower 

 becomes older, to a very delicate rose, the blooms coming well 

 above the toothed or jagged leaves as the evening approaches, 

 and remaining in all their glory during the night, emitting a de- 

 licious magnolia-like odour. This plant, tastefully arranged in 

 the rock-garden or in some quiet border, should prove one of 

 the greatest charms of the garden in every northern and tem- 

 perate clime — as welcome among the night bloomers as the 

 nightingale among night singers. It is perennial, quite hardy, 

 increased by suckers from the root, which are freely produced. 

 Cuttings also root readily. " Begins to flower in May, continuing 

 till the weather gets hot about July, when it seems to like a rest, 

 and again blooms in September and October." Young vigorous 

 specimens in rich ground would probably flower continuously 

 throughout this period. Mr. Robert Stark, of Edinburgh, a well- 

 known lover and cultivator of rare hardy plants, obtained roots 

 of this, when in Canada, from a botanist in the Western States 

 of America, and it is to him we are indebted for its introduction 

 to our gardens. 



CENOTHERA MISS0TJRIENSIS.—Af/«y«rz£''Z/««z«g-/'r/»2^flJi;. 



A NOBLE, yellow, herbaceous plant from North America, with 

 prostrate, rather downy stems, entire leaves, their margins and 

 nerves covered with silky down, and with rich clear golden-yellow 

 flowers, from four to nearly five inches in diameter, so freely 

 produced that the plant may be' said to cover the ground with 

 tufts of gold. There is no more valuable border-flower, and 

 well placed on rockwork it is a glorious ornament, especially 

 when the luxuriant shoots are allowed to hang down. As the 

 seed is but rarely perfected, it is better increased by careful 

 division, or by cuttings made in April. When used as a border- 

 plant, it does nor make such a free growth in cold clayey soils 

 as it does in warm light ones. The blooms open best in the 

 evenings. = CE. macrocarpa. 



