i68 HARDY PERENNIALS 
may tax the skill of the ambitious cultivator who 
desires to succeed with a somewhat difficult plant, 
but it is one that will well repay the trouble of 
careful culture. It has large, handsomely-veined, 
cordate leaves and produces large panicles of rich 
blue flowers like magnified Forget-me-nots. The 
chief requisite is a very open gritty soil, and the 
plant never does so well as when sharp sea sand is 
liberally incorporated in the soil. It is advisable to 
protect the crowns in Winter with a little bracken, 
heather, or straw. 
Myosotis. — ^There is no need to enter into descrip- 
tion of the Forget-me-not, for its blue eyes are 
familiar to us all, and whether seen in the cool 
dampness of a ditch or brook, waving among the 
Windflowers and the Mallows in some small copse 
or spinney, or in neatly regulated edges to the beds 
of Spring flowers in a terrace garden, the Forget-me- 
not appeals to us with irresistible power. Before 
we proceed to plant either for one purpose or 
another, it is well to bear in mind that there is much 
difference between the Forget-me-not of the water- 
side and those that thrive in the woodland and the 
garden. M. palustris and several varieties of this 
species are the moisture lovers. M. sylvatica is the 
wood Forget-me-not, which, however, will accommo- 
date itself to any semi-shaded spot in the garden, but 
M. dissitiflora is of neat, tufted habit which makes 
it a most desirable edging for beds of Tulips, Polyan- 
thus and other bright flowers. ]\I. alpestris and its 
