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In addition to the Violets here described, other species are 

 worthy of cultivation in large collections, for example : V. striata, 

 V. canadensis, V. obliqua, V. palmata, V. blanda, V. pennata, 

 V. palmaensis, and V. cucullata; but these are all exceeded in 

 size and beauty of flower by those described, and all surpassed 

 in odour by the Sweet Violet. 



VITTADENIA TEILOBA.— iV^a/ Holland Daisy. 



A PRETTY Australian composite plant, bearing an abundance of 

 flowers with yellowish disks and rosy-white rays, somewhat like 

 those of a Daisy ; but the plant has a spreading diffuse habit, and 

 forms neat little bushes nearly or quite a foot high. The seed is 

 commonly sold, and the plant may be raised as freely as any 

 annual, sown in frames or on a gentle hot-bed, in March or early 

 in April ; when put out in April in free sandy soil in a suimy posi- 

 tion, it flowers abundantly from early summer to late autumn. 

 Even better results are obtained by sowing it in August, keeping 

 it in pots over the winter. I probably should not have mentioned 

 it in this book had I not met with it in North Italy beautifully 

 embellishing rockwork on which it had become naturalised, and 

 I am confident it will do the same in well-drained sandy loam 

 on rockwork, and banks in the southern and milder parts of Eng- 

 land and Ireland. Although frequently treated as an annual, it is 

 really a perennial on soils and in positions where not destroyed 

 by wet and frost. 



WALDSTEINIA 'S'KlYOlSliL.— Three-leaved W. 



A DWARF but vigorous plant, spreading about with stout but 

 stubby strawberry-like runners. The trifoliate leaves are very 

 deeply cut, and the flowers rich golden-yellow, on dwarf stems, 

 with a dense brush of golden ■ filaments and stamens in the 

 centre. A thoroughly hardy and vigorous-growing subject, good 

 for any kind of rockwork or the margin of the mixed border or 

 shrubbery. Flowers in April, and is as readily propagated as 

 any common weed. 



Waldsteinia geoides is also worthy of a place on bare banks, 

 and occasionally as an edging among spring flowers, but it is 

 not so showy as the preceding. 



