HARDY ARUMS. 
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in the variety marmoratum or pictum they are blotched 
with creamy yellow. The spathe is greenish yellow 
or whitish, with a creamy-white or yellowish spadix. 
A. palestinum (or sanctum) from the Holy Land 
resembles the ordinary white Arum Lily in foliage, 
but the flowers are of a deep velvety purple on the 
inner surface. The common “ Lords and Ladies,” or 
“ Cuckoo Pint ” of our ditches (A. maculatum), is 
closely related to the foregoing. It is easily recognised 
by its triangular heart-shaped leaves, often spotted 
with black, its yellow-green spathes enclosing a dull- 
purplish or yellow spadix on which several brilliant 
scarlet, slimy berries are borne in autumn. 
Any moist soil and more or less shady spot will 
suit the common British Arum ; but a sandy loam, and 
warm sheltered spots are necessary to secure good 
results from the other kinds. Indeed in bleak localities 
it would be wise to protect the tuberous rootstocks 
with litter or bracken in winter. The easiest way to 
increase the plants is by offsets from rootstocks. 
ARUNDO Donax. — This is the Great Reed of South 
Europe, where it groAVS 12 to 15 feet high, but only 
about half that size in our climate. The stout erect 
stems are furnished with gracefully-recurving lance- 
sliaped leaves of a blue green tint. In the form called 
variegata, or versicolor, the leaves are conspicuously 
striped with creamy- white, and the stems do not grow 
quite as tall as the green- leaved type. A. conspicna 
from New Zealand grows 3 to 12 feet high, and has 
long curving leaves. These two species should be 
grown in rich and well-drained loamy soil in sunny 
parts of the garden, and in severe winters the crowns 
