138 PB ACTIO AL GUIDE TO GARDEN PLANTS thalicteum 



Involucre and petals absent. Sepals 4-5, 

 petal-like. Carpels numerous. Fruit an 

 aehene, often stalked and compressed. 



CuHm/re and Propagation. — The 

 Meadow Bues will grow well in any 

 ordinary garden soil, and are easily multi- 

 plied by dividing the rootstocks in autumn 

 or spring. 



When grown in masses or clumps in 

 the border or rock garden, they lend a 

 light and feathery grace to the surround- 

 ings. For cutting purposes the foliage and 

 flowers are very useful when mixed with 

 larger and more showy blossoms. Seeds 

 may be sown out of doors or in cold 

 frames as soon as ripe, or in spring, 

 afterwards pricking the seedlings out in 

 mild, showery weather. 



T. alpinum. — This is a native of the 

 British Isles, although somewhat rare in 

 Ireland in a wild state. It wiU thrive in 

 marshy or boggy places and requires peaty 

 soU. The foliage is glaucous beneath, and 

 the purplish flowers with drooping stamens 

 appear in July and August. 



Culture dc. as above. 



T. anemonoides {fine Anemone). — 

 This N. American species has a stem 

 about 6 in. high arising from a cluster 

 of thickened tuberous roots. The white 

 flowers appear in April and May, and 

 have yellowish stamens. The leaves are 

 2-3-ternate with roundish somewhat 

 3-lobed leaflets on long stalks. A useful 

 rock plant. There is a double variety 

 with smaller flowers. 



Culture dc. as above. This species is 

 often called Anemone thaUctroides. It is 

 as a rule best raised from seeds, owing to 

 the fact that if established clumps are 

 divided they often take a long time to 

 recover themselves. A partially shaded 

 situation in the rockery, such as under a 

 jutting boulder of rock, and a deep moist 

 peaty soil suit it admirably. 



T. angustifolium. — A pretty species 

 3-4 ft. high, native of W. Europe, having 

 masses of light and graceful, deeply cut 

 foliage. The clear greenish-yellow flowers 

 are produced in feathery clusters in Jime 

 and July, and give the whole plant a fine 

 effect. 



Culture Ac. as above. 



T. aquilegifolium {Feathered oi Tufted 

 Columbine). — A native of Europe and 

 Asia with purple mealy pipe-like stems 

 1-8 ft. high. Leaves like those of the 



Columbine, thrice pinnate with rounded, 

 smooth deeply toothed leaflets. Flowers 

 in early summer. Sepals white, fleeting ; 

 stamens usually purple, sometimes white. 



The variety atropurpureiMn has dark 

 purple stamens and stems ; the variety 

 formosum dark purple stamens, dilated 

 at the apex ; and the variety roseum has 

 rose-coloured sepals. 



Culture dc. as above. 



T. Chelidoni. — ^A pretty little species 

 about 6 in. high, native of Thibet. The 

 twice ternate leaves are divided into downy 

 and roundish 3-lobed and toothed leaflets 

 each i— J in. across, and the Hlac-purple 

 flowers with a bunch of yellow stamens in 

 the centre droop from thread-hke stalks in 

 August, like those of T. Dela/uayi. 



Culture do, as above. This is a pretty 

 rock plant, but to be effective should be 

 grown in bold masses. 



T. Delavayi. — • A charming Chinese 

 species 2-4 ft. high, with pinnate leaves 

 ternately divided into roundish and some- 

 what 3-lobed and toothed leaflets. The 

 flowers appear during the summer months 

 gracefully drooping or nodding from the 

 ends of slender thread-like stalks. They 

 are lilac-purple in colour with a large 

 bunch of yellowish stamens in the middle, 

 and in conjunction with the elegantly cut 

 foliage look extremely handsome. 



Culture do. as above. 



T. flavum (False Bhubarh ; Fen 

 Hue). — A native of the British Islands, 

 growing in wet places, and worthy of a 

 place among marsh or bog plants in the 

 garden. The stout stems arise 2-4 ft. 

 high from a yellow creeping rootstock, 

 and bear ternately 2-3-pinnate leaves, 

 with 8-lobed leaflets 1-1^ in. long. 

 Flowers pale yellow, anthers bright 

 yellow, produced in July and August. 



Culture da. as above. 



T. fcetidum {Fetid Meadow Hue). — 

 A native of Europe and Asia, about 1 ft. 

 high. Leaves decompound clothed with 

 a clammy pubescence, 2-3-pinnate, with 

 roundish heart-shaped leaflets, 3-5-lobed 

 at apex. Flowers small, nodding, pro- 

 duced in early summer in an erect, 

 spreading panicle. Sepals reddish out- 

 side ; anthers yellow. 



Culture dc. as above. 



T. glaucum. — A South European 

 species, with round, erect, striped and 

 mealy stems 2-5 ft. high. The leaflets are 



