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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 1909 



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Wild Flowers Worth Improving 

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WHILE the perennial gentians do not, as a rule, 

 have the spectacular beauty of the fringed 

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 manent. There is no bother about sowing the 

 seeds every year; they are not finical about soil; 

 and a good mass effect can be worked up simply 

 by dividing the clumps. What a great achievement 

 it would be if some amateur plant breeder should 

 succeed in crossing the annual and perennial 

 gentians, so as to get the glorious beauty of the 

 former with the ease of the culture of the latter! 



The closed or bottled gentian (Gentiana An- 

 drewsii) has great interest of never, or very 

 rarely, opening. In this respect it is almost unique 

 among gentians, and, indeed, among flowers in 

 general. Many people have watched these "buds" 

 daily for a fortnight or more expecting to see them 

 open. The normal flowers are purple, but I 

 have seen blue and white forms. This species is 

 often kept by nurserymen. It is to other gentians 

 what the ostrich fern is among ferns — a beautiful 

 species that anyone can grow. 



The handsomest of all American gentians, in 

 my estimation, is the downy gentian (G. puberula), 

 because its dark, bluish -purple flowers seem to me 

 more richly colored than any other species. I 

 would not except even the fringed gentian. Unlike 

 most of our perennial species, the flowers of the 

 downy gentian open widely, and like other perennial 

 species the flowers last a long while. It is one of 

 the rarest plants in Southeastern Michigan and is 

 ever the companion of that exceedingly rare and 

 very handsome, but smallest of lilies, the true 

 T.ilium umbellatum. I have usually found it on 



Gentiana Andrewsii is unique among gentians in 

 rarely, if ever, opening its buds 



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