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BEAUTIFUL GARDEN FLOWERS. 
disturbed for a few seasons. T. speciosum is a splendid 
climber with 6-lobed, almost peltate leaves, and beauti- 
ful scarlet flowers from June to October. The tubers 
may be planted in April or May in well-drained sandy 
loam, peat, and leaf soil. It grows best in partially 
shaded and moist situations. If good results are not 
secured the first season, it is better to leave the plants 
alone, and it is probable that the following year, when 
they have become well-established, they will display 
their beauty to full advantage. T. tuberosum has 
•5-lobed leaves, and scarlet and yellow blossoms. It 
should be grown in the same way as T. pentaphyllum. 
THALXCTRUM ( Meadow Rue ). — A large genus of 
perennial herbs belonging to the Buttercup family, 
and chiefly remarkable for their elegantly-cut foliage, 
which in some kinds (e.g., T. minus or T. adiantifolium ) 
is as finely-divided as, and similar in appearance to, 
the fronds of a Maidenhair Fern. The blossoms are 
green, yellow, purplish or white, and are usually 
very small and numerous, the protruding thread-like 
stamens constituting their most conspicuous feature. 
The Meadow Rues flourish in any good garden soil, 
and give a graceful appearance to the rock garden or 
flower border. They are useful for cutting ; the 
elegant foliage going well with flowers in vases, &c. 
The plants may be readily increased by division of 
the rootstocks in spring, and seeds. The most useful 
kinds are alpinum, 6 inches high, likes moist or boggy 
soil ; anemonoides, 6 inches ; angustifolium, 3 to 4 feet ; 
aquilegifolium, 1 to 3 feet, with several varieties ; 
Chelidoni, 6 inches ; Delavayi, 2 to 4 feet ; flavum, 
2 to 4 feet ; foetidum, 1 foot ; glaucum, 2 to 5 feet ; 
