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Senecio Wilsonianus has erect flower spikes six feet 
high, clear yellow color. The hold foliage is quite 
decorative 
vision of the root-stock and transplant- 
ing are essential to ensure full results 
in border cultivation of most hardy 
perennial herbs. Lastly, it may be 
pointed out that this class of plants will 
withstand low winter temperatures with 
immunity but summer drought is fatal 
to results. They revel in regions where 
in summer hot sunny days are followed 
by cool nights and where precipitation 
is even and ample. 
For the waterside and woodland the 
Senecio tribe is full of good things. The 
genus is one of the largest in the veg- 
etable kingdom. It has a world-wide 
distribution and in China alone is rep- 
resented by over a hundred distinct 
species. The majority of these are 
weeds pure and simple and of no orna- 
mental value whatsoever. On the con- 
trary, others such as S. clivorum, S. 
Veitchianus and S. Wilsonianus are of 
striking beauty. These three species 
agree in having bold, reniform-cordate 
dark green leaves each a foot or more 
across, on long and stout stalks but are 
otherwise quite dissimilar. The first 
named as a much-branched 
flattened inflorescence, one 
and a half to two feet across 
and raised well above the 
luxuriant foliage and bearing 
masses of Aster-like flowers, 
each three to five inches in 
diameter, of a peculiarly rich 
golden-yellow color in shade 
unlike that of any other 
plant in cultivation. Senecio 
Veitchianus and §S. Wilso- 
nmianus have erect spikes of 
flowers five to six feet or 
more tall. In the first the 
spike is simple and tapering 
and the flowers are clear yel- 
low in color. In S. Wilso- 
nianus the spike is cylindri- 
cal, like an enormously elon- 
gated thyrse, and branching 
at the base, and the flowers 
Corydalis thalictrifolia will be welcomed in the 
warmer sections or for pot culture North. Flowers 
clear yellow 
are deep yellow. In both of these plants’ 
the actual length of the spike clothed 
with flowers is two to three feet. Strong 
clumps of these three Senecios produce 
in August and September a dozen or 
more flowering spikes bearing many 
Senecio clivorum is a very conspicuous member of 
its family. Flowers Aster-like, three to five inches 
diameter, of a peculiar golden yellow hue 
hundreds of flowers and are extremely 
attractive. 
Quite different to the above but 
equally charming is S. tanguticus which 
grows four to five feet tall and has 
finely cut foliage and pyramidate pan- 
Rodgersia aesculifolia for moist meadow land or on rich humus-clad rocks. 
white flowers are fragrant 
Astilbe grandis has white flowers and the largest of 
the genus. Is well adapted to moist soils or for bor- 
dering streams 
icles eight inches to a foot high of 
clear yellow flowers. The individual 
flowers are small and the whole plant 
suggests a glorified Golden-rod (Soli- 
dago). These Senecios may be easily 
raised from the seeds which are freely 
produced and the seedlings grow rap- 
idly and soon make strong flowering 
plants. Senecio tanguticus is apt to 
make itself too much at home and must 
be watched or it will usurp the whole 
waterside or border unto itself. 
Closely allied to the above mentioned 
plants but totally different in appear- 
ance is Artemisia lactiflora. This new 
Wormwood has finely-divided, Chry- 
santhemum-like, aromatic leaves and 
large feathery panicles of milk-white, 
fragrant flowers borne on stems from 
three to four feet tall. In central China 
this plant is a weed of cultivation and 
when sending it home I little thought 
that it would so quickly develop into 
such a charming and useful garden 
plant. It may be increased easily from 
seeds or by division of the rootstock. 
Few subjects are more popular for 
pot-forcing for winter work 
than Astilbe japonica and A. 
astilboides, both old but in- 
dispensable plants. Their re- 
cently discovered relatives, 
A. Davidii and A. grandis, 
are not useful for this pur- 
pose but for the moist border 
and the waterside they pos- 
sess much higher claims than 
our old friends. MDavid’s 
Astilbe was the first of the 
two known and caused quite 
a sensation when exhibited. 
The flowers are of a peculiar 
shade of red, known before 
only in the Loosestrife (Ly- 
thrum Salicaria), and the an- 
thers are blue. The flowering 
stems are six feet tall with 
the flowers densely crowded 
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