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FLOKA AND SYLVA. 



ones with any pretence to " science" 

 may pause and reflectwhen they realise 

 the age and use of the name Oak in all 

 northern writings. ThusinearlyAnglo- 

 Saxon we have ac and cec, Scotch aik % 

 old Norse eik, Swedish ek, Danish and 

 Icelandic ^yi,Low German eek and eik y 

 German eiche^nd old High German eih . 



References to Modern Boobs. — Quercus pedunculate, 

 WUld. Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv., Vol. XII. ; Billot, Fl. 

 Gall, et Germ. Exsicc, No. ? S32. Ouercus ruber, Sm. Engl. 

 Bot., ed. 1, No. 1342 : Leipht, Fl. Shrop., p. 473 ; Crep. Man. 

 Fl. de Belg., ed. 2. p. 267; Mathieu. Flore Forestiere, ed. 4, 

 p. 345 ; Laslett, Timber and Timber Trees, various notes as to 

 timber ; Svme, English Botany, ed. 3, vol. 8, p. 145 ; Ehr. Arb., 

 No. 77 ; Loudon, Arb. et Frut. Brit., vol. 3, p. 1731 ; Kotschv. 

 tab. 27: Woods and Forests, vol. 1, p. 8; Selby's British 

 Forest Trees, p. 243. 



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THE YARROWS {Achillea)* 



In this large family of northern plants 

 there are many weedy ones unlikely to 

 be of much value in the garden, and no 

 doubt also a few brilliant things not vet 

 introduced. At the same time it would 

 be ungrateful not to say that a good deal 

 of beauty may be had from them in the 

 open garden, both from the tall and 

 showy and the dwarfer kinds, includ- 

 ing the silvery-tufted plants of the high 

 mountains, which come in so well for 

 our rock-gardens, narrow edgings, and 

 borders. Most of them are of the easiest 

 culture, thriving in open sandy soils and 

 the more vigorous kinds in heavier 

 ground. Almost all the dwarf mountain 

 species do well in gritty loam, and when 

 planted as they should be, freely as 

 groups in the rock-garden, care should 

 be taken that sufficient soil is given them, 

 for in our lowland gardens many alpine 

 plants, though of the simplest culture, 

 die away from starvation because too 



* With coloured plate from 



often planted in the smallest scrap of 

 earth. In their mountain homes many 

 of these plants send their roots down to 

 a great depth in the rocky crevices, and 

 draw thence a never-failing supply of 

 food and moisture. 



The two plants shown in our plate 

 were drawn from flowers sent by Mr. 

 Gumbleton from Belgrove, Queens- 

 town, both being introductions from 

 the east of Europe. Achillea buglossis 

 is a large-flowered form of A. lingulata 

 — -a plant found upon the mountains of 

 Hungary, bearing small rounded heads 

 of white flowers flushed with pale rose 

 at maturity. This fine variety with its 

 spreading heads of large flat flowers is 

 distinct from other kinds and very use- 

 ful for cutting, the shaded centre en- 

 hancing the effect of the white petals. 

 It grows from 1 2 to 1 8 inches high, with 

 a long season of bloom from June into 

 September. 



A. clypeolata is a plant rarely seen 

 in gardens, coming from rocky places 

 in the mountains of the Balkan penin- 

 sula. It flowers during June and July, 

 upon stout stems 1 8 inches high, with 

 narrow, much-divided leaves and dense 

 heads of bright yellow, composed of 

 many small flowers tinged with orange 

 in the centre when fully open. Both 

 kinds do best in warm, well-drained soil 

 and sunny spots, the long black roots 

 being quite at home amongst stones and 

 sand. 



The Yarrows form a group of many 

 species, confined (save for a very few 

 kinds) to the northern temperate regions 

 of the Old World, extending through- 



a drawing by H. G. Moon. 



