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other Trilliums of which there are whites of gUstening 
purity and pink-tinted flowers of dehcate charm. 
Trollius. — Of yellow flowers there are many. 
Of May and June flowers also many. Among either 
or both the Trollius may justly lay claim to a pro- 
minent position. The globular or cupped flowers, 
the cut leaves, and the whole contour of the plant 
may be likened to a Buttercup on a magnified scale, 
but in some the gold gives place to deep fiery orange, 
in some the flowers are practically double, in all 
they are strikingly effective, and the Trollius are 
capable of artistic arrangement in vases and other 
receptacles for cut flowers. Easily grown in most 
soils, the plants show a decided preference for 
strong loam of a fairly tenacious character, but it 
must be deeply dug so that the great mass of long 
fibrous roots may delve deeply in search of the large 
supplies of moisture absorbed in building up the 
fleshy tissues of the foliage and flower stalks. 
Tropaeolum. — When one considers the frequency 
with which inquiries arise for ' some quick-growing 
climbing plant that will make a good show during 
the first season of planting,' it seems somewhat 
strange that the gorgeously brilliant, free-flowering, 
and rampant perennial Tropseolums are not far 
more frequently grown. The old-fashioned Annual 
Nasturtiums, favourites with every juvenile owner 
of a little garden plot, are gay and cheerful, but for 
refinement combined with dazzling display of colours 
the perennial species leave the common Nasturtium 
