THE 



HAEDY FLOWEE GAEDEN 



DESCEIPTION, CULTUEE, AND PEOPAGATION OF THE MOST 

 DESIEABLE HEEBACEOUS AND ALPINE FLOWEES, OENAMENTAL 

 AND FLOWEEING TEEBS AND SHEUBS, BAMBOOS, FEENS, &c., 

 SUITABLE FOE THE OPEN AIE IN THE BEITISH ISLANDS. 



Division I. POLYPETALOUS DICOTYLEDONS 

 Series I. — Thalamiflor^ (see p. 122). 



I. RANUNCULACEiE— Crowfoot or Buttercup Order 



Chiefly herbaceous plants, rarely shrubs, with alternate or opposite (as in 

 Clematis) and generally much-divided leaves, the stalks of which are dilated 

 at the base, forming a sheath half clasping the stem. Flowers regular or 

 irregular, with 3-6 hypogynous deciduous sepals, usually imbricate in bud. 

 Petals 3-15, hypogynous, in one or more rows, sometimes assuming very 

 remarkable forms, as in Larkspur {Delphinium), Columbine {Aquilegia), and 

 Monkshood (Aconitum). Stamens usually numerous, hypogynous. Carpels 

 numerous, one-celled, free, or occasionally united into a many-celled pistil. 

 Fruit either consists of dry, indehiscent achenes, as in Buttercup ; or berries, 

 as in Baneberry ; or follicles, as in the Paeony. 



The order contains about 1,000 known species, chiefly natives of damp, 

 cold climates. A few are found in the tropics, but at very high elevations. 



CLEMATIS (Traveller's Joy ; The by a mulching of good rotten manure in 



Virgin's Bower). — A genus of shrubs autumn. The plants are very ornamental 



which creep or climb by their leaf-stalks, trained over walls, trellises, arbours, &c. 



and have opposite compound leaves, with- They may be propagated by sowing the 



out stipules. Calyx consists of 4 petal-like seeds in spring in light sandy soU, in 



sepals (garden forms have more) usually gentle heat ; or in cold frames as soon as 



valvate. . There is no corolla, and the fruit ripe, after\^rards pricking the seedlings out 



is a head of sessile or stalked achenes, and giving more space for a sturdy devel- 



with long, generally feathered awns or opment. Planting out may take place in 



styles, which give the plants a beautiful spriag or early ia autumn. Clematises 



appearance even in winter. may also be increased by layers outside 



Culture and Propagation. — Clema- put in at any time, but care must be 



tises like a rich loamy soil with a certain taken that they are not separated from 



amount of chalk or Ume, and are benefited the parent plants until well rooted. 



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