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Pium. Double Flowering, Japanese (Prunus triflora, sometimes 
called P. triloba). A very handsome shrub or small tree bearing pink 
flowers resembling pink roses; leaves finely serrated; fruit pointed, with 
firm flesh and a small stone. Culture the same as Crab-Apple. 
Ruopora (R. Canadensis). 1-2 ft. A low shrub, native to cold wet 
ground with handsome rose-pink or purplish-pink flowers that appear 
in clusters before the pale, rather hairy leaves. Culture the same as 
Pinxter Flower to which it is allied. Transplant in spring. 
Rosemary. Wild, see Andromeda. 
MAY 
PINK PERENNIALS 
AETHIONEMA (A. grandiflora). 14 ft. Makes a spreading bush bear- 
ing pink flowers in crowded racemes. Requires full sun and lime in the 
soil. Propagated by seeds and cuttings. May to August. 
AQUILEGIA, see Columbine. 
BLEEDING Heart (Dicentra spectabilis). 2 ft. Has very handsome 
foliage and curved terminal racemes of pink flowers with two blunt 
spurs. Give a rich deep soil, moisture, full sun and space to spread 
itself. Propagated by dividing crowns early in spring or cutting the 
fleshy roots in short lengths and starting them in sandy soil. 
Campion. Alpine (Lychnis alpina). 1 ft. Lower leaves form a 
tuft from which rise close pink heads of pink flowers 4 in. across, borne 
on stems from 6 in. to 1 ft. high. Give full sun and rich soil. Propagate 
by seeds or division of the root. 
‘COLUMBINE (Aquilegia vulgaris, var. rosea). 2-3 ft. The Colum- 
bine comes in the loveliest tones of palest rose, salmon pink, deep pink, 
old rose and rose spurs with white crown, but it is impossible to secure 
these with any exactness from seed, owing to the cross-fertilizing by 
insects. Division of the root, or covering the plant during the flower- 
ing season is the only way to perpetuate the stock. For culture, see 
Columbine, White Per., May. 
DicEntRA, see Bleeding Heart. 
Eremurus (E. robustus). 8 ft. Leaves 4 in. wide make a huge 
tufted rosette several feet across, from which rises a tall scape from 
4-8 ft. high ending in a terminal raceme of handsome peach-colored 
flowers resembling the Hyacinth. It dies'to the ground after blooming, 
