PLANTS WORTH GROWING 201 
whether there is not a place in the garden where it 
may not with advantage be planted. It asks no 
special favours, but will grow in sunshine or in 
shade, in wet places or in dry, in the cold exposed 
gardens of the north or east, or in the sandy soil 
of a garden by the sea. Its blossoms are plentifully 
produced from the latter days of Spring to the 
approach of Winter, and the colours available include 
pink, red, purple, bright blue, and lavender, as well 
as pure white. A clump will divide into several 
plants that may be immediately replanted to quickly 
re-establish themselves. Surely this is not a plant 
that deserves to be ignored. 
Tricyrtis. — Where one's garden happens to be a 
piece of reclaimed heathland with a sandy-peaty 
soil, the Tricyrtis' uncommon and prettily spotted 
Lily-like flowers will make themselves at home and 
constitute an unusual feature. In anything like 
a cla}^ soil, or on chalk, the plants will not be a 
conspicuous success, nor can they stand scorching 
sun in an exposed situation. The species hirta, 
with its varieties grandiflora, nigra (with black 
blotches on a white ground), and variegata (with 
white-margined leaves), are the most useful sorts, 
but others that may be included where a collection 
is decided upon are Aestivalis, with speckled grey 
and purple blossoms ; Macropoda, yellow dotted 
with purple ; and Pilosa, growing only about a foot 
high with white and purple flowers. The other 
kinds named grow two or three feet high. 
