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GARDEN FLOWERS. 



SLENDER LEAVED PEONY. 



(P^ONIA TENUIFOLIA, ri- PL.) 



are usually the annual kinds, but the herbaceous kind, 

 J^. Carolma, bears beautiful pink-purple flowers, more than 



an inch, across. It grows about a 

 foot high and blooms all summer. 

 Phlox stella/ria, starry phlox, is a 

 similar free-blooming summer kind 

 of about the same height that bears 

 white flowers. 



The bachelor's-button ( Ranun- 

 culm speciosus, jl. pi-)-, grows a foot 

 high, and displays large golden- 

 yellow flowers, invariably double. 

 Silene Virgiiiiva (fire pink) is one of the finest catchflies, 

 and produces brilliant scailet flowers, an inch or more 

 in diameter, from June to August. It grows about a foot 

 high. Statices are among the best and most desirable 

 herbaceous plants. Their flowers are of long duration, 

 and when cut and dried are eflEec- 

 tive for winter decoration, as they 

 retain their color in a dried state. 

 One of the best is Statice latifolia. 

 It bears in June immense panicles 

 of bright blue flowers, often two 

 feet across. Its native place is 

 Southern Russia, and it only grows 

 about a foot high. The familiar 

 name of this type of plant is wound- 

 wort. Meadow-i'ue or Thalictrum,, 

 bearing large panicles of flowers in summer, presents one of 

 its best effects in speciosum, a fine large yellow-flowered sort 



SEA LAVENDER. 



(STATICE LATrFOLlA.) 



