Yellow Lupin has a Sweet Scent 
which are propagated by cuttings ; the double 
forms are also very showy. 
Love-in-a-Mist. See Nigella. 
Lunaria biennis {Honesty) ; biennial. — A 
very useful plant for half-shady places, 3 feet 
high, flowering in May. The type plant has 
flowers of a lightish purple, but a deeper red- 
purple variety is preferable. The seed-pods, 
when cleared of the outer husk and seed, leave 
a satin-like dividing membrane which makes 
the whole or a large branch an ornamental 
object for winter decoration. But for this it 
must be secured at the earliest moment of ripe- 
ness and after a spell of dry weather ; continued 
wet stains the inner film and makes it useless. 
It is sown in April for flowering the following 
year. 
Lupinus ; h.a. — Several of the annual 
Lupins are much to be recommended. L. 
Hartwegi, a little under 3 feet, has spikes of pale 
blue flowers with a misty appearance ; the old 
annual Yellow Lupin, about 2 feet high, is 
always charming and has a sweet scent. L. 
hybridus atrococcinius, red and white, is a showy 
flower ; the tall L. mutabilis, and its fine variety 
Cruikshanki, blue and white, 4 feet high, is a 
plant of important aspect. For a good con- 
tinuance of bloom it is necessary to cut out the 
faded flower-heads before they form seed, which 
they do very quickly. 
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