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PB ACTIO AL GUIDE TO GABDEN PLANTS delphinium 



deeply lobed leaves. The bright scarlet 

 flowers, with distinctly yellow petal Umbs, 

 are produced in spikes during August. 

 Owing to its long fleshy roots, this species 

 should be grown in a good depth of rich 

 soil. 



Culture Sc. as above. Seeds sown 

 annually. 



D. cardiopetalum. — A Pyrenean 

 annual about 1 ft. high, with smooth" 

 ternate leaves cut into linear lobes. 

 Flowers dark bluish-violet on crowded 

 racemes in June. 



Culture dc. as above. Seeds sown 

 annually. 



D. cashmirianum. — A native of Kash- 

 mir 12-18 in. high, with pahnately lobed 

 leaves 4 in. or more across, deep green, 

 and sUghtly hairy. Flowers produced in 

 corymbs in July, of a distiaet pale blue, 

 each 1-2 in. across. 



Culture dc. as above. Best increased 

 from seed sown in autumn in cold frames. 

 The variety atropurpureum has much 

 larger and deeper coloured flowers than 

 the type. The variety WalJceri is dis- 

 tinguished by having duU yellow petals 

 tipped with purple. 



D. caucasicum. — A Caucasian species 

 lJ-2 ft. high, with palmately lobed and 

 toothed radical leaves, and lance-shaped 

 acute bracts on the floral stems. The dark 

 blue flowers which are borne singly in 

 the axils of the bracts are about 1^ in. 

 across, and are produced nearly the whole 

 length of the stem. 



Culture Ac. as above. Increased by 

 seeds, division, or cuttings. 



D. cheilanthum. — A species 2-3 ft. 

 high from Dahuria. Leaves 5-parted with 

 oblong pointed, sub-trifid, and somewhat 

 toothed lobes. The dark blue flowers 

 appear in September. 



Culture do. as above. Increased by 

 seeds, division, or cuttings. 



D. Consolida. — A European annual 

 occasionally found wild in England, 12- 

 18 in. high, with leaves cut into narrow 

 linear lobes. 



This and B. Ajacia have given rise to 

 a great number of garden varieties. 



Culture do. as above. Seeds sown 

 annually. 



D. dasycarpura. — This hairy-fruited 

 species is a native of tlie Caucasus, and is 



about 4-6 ft. high. The downy leaves 

 have 5 lance-shaped lobes, somewhat 

 trifid and deeply toothed at the apex. 

 The rather large, beautiful blue flowers 

 with brownish petals appear in June on 

 simple downy racemes. 



Culture Sc. as above. Increased by 

 seeds, division, or cuttings. 



D. elegans. — A N. American species 

 1-2 ft. high with smooth 5-parted leaves 

 cut into cleft lobes and linear lance- 

 shaped lobules. The dark blue flowers 

 are borne on loose racemes in June 

 and July. There is a double-flowered 

 form. 



Culture Sc. as above. Increased by 

 seeds, division, or cuttings. 



D. Emiliae. — A fine Califomian peren- 

 nial 1^2 ft. high. It grows upon sunny 

 slopes in a wild state, with masses of 

 Calochorti, and produces its trusses of 

 deep blue flowers in June. As yet it 

 does not appear to be well known in 

 British gardens, and seeds have probably 

 not yet been imported in quantity. 



Culture dc. as above. Increased by 

 seeds, division, or cuttings. 



D. exalatum {D. elatum). — A species 

 3-6 ft. high from N. America. Leaves 

 8-7-parted with wedge-shaped jagged 

 lobes pointed at the apex. The blue or 

 sometimes whfte flowers appear from 

 June to August in erect spikes. 



Culture dc. as above. Increased by 

 seeds, division, or cuttings. 



D. formosum. — The native country of 

 this fine species has not been fixed with 

 any certainty, but it is supposed to be of 

 Asiatic origin. It is 1^8^ ft. high, with 

 grey-green palmately lobed leaves, the 

 lower ones stalked, the upper sessile and 

 simply 3-parted. The -flowers are borne 

 on long spikes dmring the summer and 

 autumn, and are of a fine azure-blue 

 shaded with indigo ; the spur is of a 

 violet-blue, rather long, two-cleft, and 

 rumpled looking. 



Cnlture dc. as above. Increased by 

 seeds, division, or cuttings. 



D. g^randiflorum. — One of the most 

 beautiful Larkspurs, growing 1-3 ft. high, 

 and native of Siberia and Dahuria. The 

 light green leaves are smooth above, 

 hoary beneath, and palmately cut into 

 many narrow lobes. The large flowers, 

 varying in colour from blue to white, are 

 borne on spreading few-flowered racemes 



