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GARDEN FLOWERS. 



CRUCIANELLA STYLOSA. 



Poinponium, that blooras comparatively early in June. The 

 flowers are pendulous, scarlet, and attractive. The plant 



comes from France and grows 

 about three feet high. Crudoe 

 nella stylosa is an ornamental 

 plaiit, diflPusively tufted with a 

 profusion of weak, straggling, 

 procumbent stems clothed with 

 whorls of six or more narrow 

 lance-shaped leaves growing about 

 a foot high. The flowers are 

 borne in small but handsome 

 terminal heads, and are bright rose or pink, with long styles 

 protruding conspicuously beyond the corollas. 



I propose now to consider some of the summer-flowering 

 plants, the plants that commence to bloom in June or early 

 July, and oftentimes continue in flower throughout the 

 season. There are many, but we shall attempt to consider 

 only a few. Acldllea tomentosa (downy yaiTow), difEei'ent 

 from most herbaceous plants, displays striking and attractive 

 foliage, but the flowers are pretty, and of a bright-yellow 

 color. It is only six or eight inches high. The Aquilegias or 

 columbines are always quaintly beautiful, and there are none 

 more so than the summei'-blooming ones. A. chrysanilia, the 

 golden columbine, is probably the best, because it produces 

 golden-yellow flowers all summer. Like all Aquilegias, the 

 flowers have curious long spurs. A. ccerulea (Rocky 

 Mountain columbine) has charming blue and white 

 flowers, and is only less valuable than chrysantha because 

 it does not bloom all summer. Both of these columbines 



