52 AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF 



Hedysarum coronarium {French HoneysucUe). — An herbaceous legu- 

 minous plant, largely grown on the Continent for feeding Stock. 

 Its popular name no doubt is due to its similarity to red Clover, 

 often called Honeysuckle by country children from the uses they 

 make of its sweet flower-tubes. 



Helichrysum fragrans. — A neat shrubby plant from South Africa, 

 with small pink flowers that have an agreeable odour ; they will 

 keep in a dry state for a long time after gathering, being practi- 

 cally everlasting. H. odoratissimum, with yellow flowers ; and 

 H. graveolens, also possess scented attractions. 



Heliotropum (Heliotrope, Cherry Pie). — This beautiful scented flower- 

 ing plant is stated to have owed its existence to the death of Clytie, 

 who pined away in hopeless love of the god Apollo : — • 



'She ^Yitll distracted passion pines away, 



Her perished limbs "beget 

 A flower, resembling the pale Violet ; 

 Which with the sun, though rooted fast, doth move ; 

 And being changed, changed not her love.' — Ovid. 



The Peruvian Heliotrope has for generations been cultivated for 

 the delicious fragrance of its small clusters of lavender-coloured 

 flowers which shed an Almond-like perfume that has found for the 

 plant the name of Cherry Pie. The annual varieties mostly come 

 from the West Indies and all are delicately perfumed, some 

 emitting a smell of new- mown hay. They also constitute an 

 important and valuable class of sweet-scented flowers, employed 

 as bedders, provided the more compact growing varieties are chosen. 

 The Queen is a variety producing large heads of flowers that are 

 almost white, and very powerfully fragrant. Bouquet de Viol eft es, 

 Duchess of Edlnl'urrjh, rucI Lady Jlole-^vorthhciye flowers of various 

 shades of blue, and are specially suitable for supplying cut flowers. 

 Bouquet Perfume bears flowers of a pleasing lilac-blue colour. For 

 bedding, the best are Dicina, light blue, and Mrs. Leicinrjton, dark 

 blue. In sub-tropical climates they are largely used for making 

 hedges, and marvellously beautiful are they in this capacity, shed- 

 ding a pleasing fragrance around. 



Helleborus [Christmas Pose). — A common plant in the South of 

 Europe, and now acclimatised in our gardens. Its chief attraction 

 is its usefulness of coming into bloom in midwiuter ; the flowers of 

 H. cau^^a^icus, H. graveoJens, and H. Bocconi are all pleasingly 

 scented of the Elder ; beyond these the family possesses no 

 fragrant attractions. 



Hemerocallis flava (Bay L'dy^ or YeUojn Tnherose). — This beautiful 

 floweringjjulbous plant has been made tlie emblem of coquetry, 



