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GARDEN FLO WERS. 



BUTTON SNAKEROOT. 



ClIATRIS 6PICATA.) 



blooming species bearing numerous large orange-scarlet 



flowers. It is one of the best and easiest grown of the 

 Pacific-coast species. lAUimi Pyre- 

 naicum, yellow-turban lily, is a fine 

 showy species with yellow flowers 

 spotted with black. Most, if not all 

 of these lilies are easy to cultivate, 

 and simply require good garden soil. 

 The Liatris, blazing-star, or gay- 

 feather, is a genus of very showy 

 plants from the Western and Southern 

 States. They have tuberous roots, 



straight stems two to five feet high, and generally very 



narrow leaves, the upper part of the stem being crowded 



with flowers that form a long, dense spike of some shade 



of purple. L.pycnostaohya, Kansas gay-feather, comes from 



the prairies of the far West, and grows five feet high, with 



a very dense spike of flowers ten ta 



twenty inches long. It flowers in 



summer later than ZdaPr-is spiocnta. 

 Lychnis OJialcedonica, scarlet 



lychnis, or Maltese cross, comes 



from Russia, and grows two to 



three feet high. This is one of the 



oldest as well as one of the most 



brilliant of hardy garden plants. 



It has been neglected for much less 



showy summer flowers. 



Lythrum Salicaria, purple loosestrife, is a beautiful 



plant. It grows about three or four feet high during July, 



DOUBLE SCARLET LYCHNIS. 

 (LYCHNtS CHALCEDONICA, FL. PL.) 



