THE FLOWER GROWER'S GUIDE. 



varieties. Good soil. Sun or shade. Division or 

 root cuttings. 



Antherictjm. — Beautiful plants, flowering in June. 

 A. Liliago (St. Bernard's lily), white ; feet. 

 A. Liliastrum major (syn. Paradisia and Czackia 

 Liliastrum major), Great St. Bruno's Lily, 

 white; 1 to l\ feet. Sandy loam. Sun. Divi- 

 sion or seed. 



Asclepias (Milkweed, Silkweed). — Very ornamental 

 plants with umbels of attractive flowers. A. 

 incarnata (Swamp milkweed), rosy-purple ; 3 feet. 

 Good soil, in moist and sunny position. Division 

 or seeds. A. tuberosa (butterfly weed), orange- 

 red ; 2 feet. Warm, dry soil. Division or seeds. 



Aster (Starwort, Michaelmas Daisy). — Valuable and 

 very beautiful plants, among which are many 

 species and varieties indispensable to the garden. 

 See separate list. 



Astilbe. — Pretty spirsea-like plants generally pre- 

 ferring moisture. A. astilboides, white ; 2 feet. 



A. a. floribunda, superior variety. A. chinensis, 

 white and rose or purple ; 2 feet. A. japonica 

 (spiraea or hoteia), white ; 2 feet. A. rivularis, 

 white ; 3 feet. A. Thunbergi, white ; 3 feet. 

 Division. Good soil, sun or shade. 



Astrantia (Masterwort). — Useful for cutting, but 

 dull in colour and ineffective in garden. A. 

 helleborifolia, pink ; 2 feet. A. major, dull pink ; 

 2 feet. Division or seed. Any soil or position. 



Balsamita (Costmary). — B. grandiflora ; a singular, 

 rayless, yellow composite ; 3 feet. Sun. Divi- 

 sion. Apt to die out unless divided occasionally. 

 Good soil. 



Bocconia cordata (Plume Poppy.) — Handsome plant, 

 sometimes 8 or 9 feet high, with plumes of whitish 

 flowers. Good soil. Division. 



Buphthalmum (Telekia).— Useful yellow composites. 



B. speciosum is rather too coarse for good positions. 



B. salicifolium, 2 feet. B. speciosum, 6 feet. 

 Good soil. Sun. Division. 



Campanula (Bellflower, Harebell).— Among the most 

 valuable of the plants of the season, and giving 

 considerable variety. Too numerous to detail. 



C. barbata (bearded), blue ; 2 feet. C. csespitosa 

 (tufted), blue or white ; 4 inches. C. carpatica 

 (Carpathian), blue ; 9 to 12 inches. C. c. alba, 

 white. C. c. pelviformis, blue. C. c. turbinata, 

 blue. C. garganica (Gargano), blue ; 6 inches. 

 C. g. hirsuta, blue. C. glomerata (clustered), blue ; 

 1 foot. C. grandis (great), blue or white; 2 feet. 

 C. Hendersoni, blue ; 1| feet. C. lactiflora, pale 

 blue ; 4 feet. C. latifolia, blue ; 3 to 4 feet. C. 1. 

 macrantha, purple blue ; 3 to 4 feet. C. 1. mac- 



rantha alba, white ; 3 to 4 feet. C. 1. Van 

 Houttei, 2 to 3 feet. C. persicifolia in variety 

 (peach -leaved b.), 2 to 3 feet; blue or white. 

 Among the best are C. persicifolia fl. pi., blue. 

 C. p. alba fl. pi. C. p. grandiflora, blue. C. p. 

 grandiflora alba, white. C. portensehlagiana 

 (Portenschlag's), blue ; 9 inches. C. pulla (dark- 

 coloured), blue ; 6 inches. C. G. F. Wilson 



Fig. 125. Campanula macrostsla. 



(Wilson's), deep blue ; 6 to 9 inches. C. pusilla 

 (dwarf), blue or white ; 4 inches. C. pyrami- 

 dalis (pyramidal), blue or white ; 4 to 6 feet. 

 C. macrostyla, so named from its prominent style ; 

 purplish mauve, veined, dwarf (Fig. 125). Seed 

 or division. Almost any soil. 

 Centatjrea (Knapweed, Perennial Cornflower). — 

 Effective border flcwers, the varieties of C. 

 inontana being also prized for cutting. C. Baby- 



