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PB ACTIO AL GUIDE TO GARDEN PLANTS potentilla 



found on the Caucasus, in Siberia, and 

 North America. It grows 2-2 J ft. high, 

 and has oval pinnate leaves covered with 

 soft hairs, and produces an abundance of 

 golden-yellow flowers during the summer 

 months. 



Culture dc. as above. 



G. triflorum (Sieversia triflora). — A 

 pretty N. American perennial with inter- 

 ruptedly pinnate leaves 4-6 in. long, 

 with deeply serrated leaflets. Flowers 

 in summer, white, tipped and edged with 

 purple-red, or purplish, on hairy stems 

 8-12 in. high. Calyx dark purple. 



Culture <&c. as above. It likes a 

 moist and rather light soil in partially 

 shaded spots in the rockery or border. 



WALDSTEINIA.— A genus with 4 

 species of creeping pereimial Strawberry- 

 like herbs. Calyx persistent, 5-lobed, with 

 5 minute bracteoles. Petals 5, obovate. 

 Stamens many. Achenes dry or fleshy, 

 downy or hairy. 



Culture and Propagation. ■ — These 

 plants grow well in ordinary boU and are 

 suitable for the rockery. They may be in- 

 creased by seeds or division in spring or in 

 early autumn. Seeds may be sown when 

 ripe in cold frames or in the open border 

 in sheltered spots, and the seedlings may 

 be pricked out in mild weather in spring. 

 Seeds may also be sown at the latter 

 period and the seedlings transplanted in 

 mild showery weather in early autumn. 

 The plants, however, are so very easUy 

 divided that it is scarcely worth while to 

 go to the trouble of raising them from 

 seed, unless a very large number of plants 

 are required. 



W. fragarioides {Barren Strawberry). 

 A showy N. American perennial with 

 bright red hairy stems about 6 in. high, 

 with ternate leaves, and obovate irregularly 

 toothed leaflets. Flowers in early sum- 

 mer, bright yellow, about J in. across. 



Culture do. as above. 



W. geoides. — ^A dwarf tufted Hun- 

 garian perennial 4-6 in. high, with pal- 

 mately 3-5-lobed and toothed leaves. 

 Flowers in May and June, small, yellow, 

 numerous, usually in terminal pairs. 



Culture do. as above. 



W. trifolia. — A native of E. Europe 

 4-6 in. high. Leaves 3-lobed with shortly 

 stalked hairy leaflets. Flowers in April 

 and May, rich golden-yellow. W. sibirica 



from Siberia appears to be a form of this 

 species. 



Culture dc. as above. This is a 

 charming plant for trailing over rocks, and 

 looks much better grown in this way than 

 as a flat patch in the rockery. 



FRAGARIA (Steawbeeey). — A 

 genus with only a few species of silky or 

 hairy perennial herbs, with runners or 

 stolons. Leaves 1-3-foliolate or pinnate. 

 Flowers polygamous-dioecious. Calyx 

 persistent, 5-lobed, 5-bracteolate. Petals 

 5, broadly obovate, shortly clawed. Sta- 

 mens many, persistent. Carpels many, 

 distinct, on a fleshy convex receptacle, 

 which in the case of the Strawberry is 

 eaten as the fruit. 



Culture amd Propagation. — The 

 Strawberries for the flower garden are 

 easily grown in ordinary soil not too wet or 

 cold, and are easily increased by dividing 

 the rootstocks or the runners. The plants 

 may be utilised for the ornamentation of 

 rockeries, old ruins, walls &c. The Straw- 

 berry proper is treated upon at p. 1088. 



F. chilensis. — A pretty S. American 

 species about 1 ft. high, with obovate, 

 serrate, wrinkled leaflets, silky beneath. 

 Flowers in April and May, white, on thick 

 silky stalks. Fruit rosy, white-fleshed. 

 The variety grandifiora (known as the 

 Pine Strawberry) has glaucous leaves 

 hairy beneath, and somewhat larger 

 flowers than the type. 



Culture dc. as above. 



F. indica, with golden-yellow flowers, 

 and the various forms of the white - 

 flowered Wild Strawberry {F. vesca) are 

 useful in conjunction with the above for 

 the rockery or chinks of old walls. 



Culture dc. as above. 



POTENTILLA (Cinqtjefoil).— A 

 genus with about 120 species of snaooth, 

 hairy or silky tomentose perennial herbs 

 or undershrubs, rarely annuals. Leaves 

 digitately 3-7-foliolate or oddly pinnate, 

 with stipules adnate to the base of the 

 stalk. Flowers in corymbose cymes, 

 rarely axillary and soUtary. Calyx per- 

 sistent, usually 5-lobed, with 5 bracteoles. 

 Petals 5, rarely 4, obovate roundish, or 

 linear spathidate. Stamens, carpels, 

 achenes many. 



Culture and Propagation. ^- Poten- 

 tillas prefer a sandy soil. Many of them 

 are useful for rockeries, banks &c., and n 

 few of the best make splendid border 



