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tensia Sibirica, the Siberian Lungwort, removed by 

 modern botanists from the genus JBulmonaria, with 

 heart-shaped leaves, and bunches of five or six blue 

 flowers, is also sometimes styled Forget-me-not, but 

 incorrectly. It thrives in a moist, half-shady spot, and 

 increases rapidly at the root. 



Fumitory — Fumaria of the old botanists, Corydalis 

 of the moderns. — The Fumitories have long enjoyed, and 

 may still enjoy, a certain consideration as pleasing, mo- 

 dest spring and summer flowers, unless it be their fate 

 to retire before the presence of their beautiful relatives, 

 Dielytra. The Tuberous Fumitory, C. bulbosa, blossoms 

 in April, and bears a bunch of flowers whose colour 

 varies. Quite hardy. C. nobilis, with a perennial tap- 

 root, is of taller stature, and has yellow flowers slightly 

 tipped with purple. Requires heath-mould ; is propa- 

 gated by slips of the root. C. lutea has white and yellow 

 flowers, likes stony ground, and is suitable for rock-work. 

 C. sempervirens, or more appropriately glauca, as ever" 

 green, is a strange title to bestow on an annual plant, 

 from Canada, has purplish flowers intermingled with yel- 

 low, and when once introduced will come up self-sown. 



Hepatica triloba, or Anemone hepatica — charming 

 spring plants, universal favourites, in varieties of white, 

 red, and blue, single and double. Thrive best in light 

 loam, in a half-shady, half-moist spot. The flowers 

 appear before the leaves, which succeed them, and cover 

 them soon after the petals have fallen. In December, 

 not before, cut off the old leaves with a pair of scissors, 

 which will allow the flowers to display themselves unen- 

 cumbered by dead foliage. Propagate the double varie- 

 ties by division of the stools, not too often. The single 

 Hepaticas may likewise be thus increased, and also by 

 seed, which continues green, although ripe, for nearly 

 two months, and falls at the slightest touch. Watch for 

 its maturity, and sow immediately after gathering. 



Hollyhock — Althcea rosea.^-ln French, Passe-Rose 

 and Hose Tremiere. Theoretically a biennial, but prac- 

 tically a hardy perennial, from the way in which it in- 



