WINTER ACONITE. 79 
hirsutum (“ Codlins and Cream”), 3 to 5 feet high, 
flowers pale pink or white. Seeds and division. 
EPIMEDIUM (Barrenwort) . — Graceful dwarf grow- 
ing plants with creeping rootstocks and leaves, often 
with bristly teeth and highly coloured with rose, 
purple, or brown. The small hooded or spurred 
flowers are variously tinted, and although not large 
are borne in great profusion. The plants flourish in 
moist loam and peat, and are excellent for the rock 
garden. They may be increased by division of the 
rootstocks in spring. The following are a few of the 
best: Alpinum, crimson and yellow; diphyllum, red and 
white; macranthum or grandiflorum, white; Musschia- 
num, white ; pinnatum, yellow ; purpureum, purple ; 
rubrum, crimson ; Per raid erianum, yellow and red. 
ER ANTHIS hyemalis ( Winter Aconite) . — A charm- 
ing little European perennial with tuberous roots, 
deep green roundish divided leaves, and bright yellow 
buttercup-like blossoms which continue to peep 
through the ground from Christmas to March — rarely 
exceeding a few inches high. Very closely related is 
E. cilicica, which flowers about the same time or earlier, 
and has more divided leaves. E. sibirica does not 
produce its yellow blossoms until the others are about 
over — in March and April. The Winter Aconites 
flourish in any good garden soil, and are chiefly valu- 
able for planting thickly beneath deciduous trees, in 
the rock garden, grassy banks, &c.,to make them look 
cheerful in winter. The rootstocks may be divided 
after the flowers have faded. When raised from 
seeds it takes from three to four years for the young 
tubers to reach the flowering stage. 
