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moisture is longest retained. In cultivation it suc- 
ceeds in any good soil. Its leaves are broad, one 
and a half inches long and the flowers large, the ef- 
fect being rendered even higher by the conspicuous 
mass of yellow stamens which fill the center. It is 
perfectly hardy and very useful in a mixed herbace- 
ous border. Young plants from seed bloom the 
second year. 
Buckleyi, a low, dense, widely branching spec- 
ies from the mountains of the Carolinas and Geor- 
gia, with small broad leaves, and flowers in terminal 
cymes, forming neat rounded tufts. It is uncom- 
mon both in nature and cultivation but seems 
adapted to rockeries and the margins of small shrub- 
beries. Sufficiently hardy. 
Calyciniini, Rose of Sharon, Aaron’s Beard, is 
an interesting sub-shrub one foot or less high with 
numerous unbranched stems procumbent or ascend- 
ing, occurring in thick tufts. Both the flowers and 
evergreen leaves are very large. It spreads rap- 
idly by creeping woody root-stalks completely cov- 
ering the soil and is used as a ground cover abroad. 
In New England it is not very hardy and while its 
annual killing back prevents it from covering wide 
stretches it does not destroy its bloom nor its 
beauty for a herbaceous border or the margin of a 
shrubbery. It may be protected and its dark per- 
sistent foliage preserved. It is one of the most val- 
uable foreign species thriving well in sun and mod- 
erate shade and makes one of the best dwarf shrubs 
for the Middle States. 
Densiflorum is a large Hypericum four to six 
feet high, shrubby, stout and densely leafy. The 
leaves are usually very narrow but some forms are 
narrowly oblong. The flowers are small and num- 
erous. The shrub is native to the Middle and 
Southern states, perfectly hardy, and sufficiently 
attractive to deserve cultivation but as yet it is not 
well known. 
Galioides. Like densiflorum this is a form with 
narrow graceful foliage and abundant small flowers, 
but is practically suffruticose though sometimes a 
round compact shrub. Perfectly hardy, its home 
is also in the Middle and Southern States where it 
is natural to low wet lands but grows freely in any 
garden soil. The hardy narrow leaved and small 
flowered species deserve attention as their charac- 
teristics relieve them in part of the stiffness so 
prone to the Hypericum, although in their proper 
places the large flowered forms are much the 
better. 
Hircinum, goat-scented St. John’s Wort (See 
cut.) So named from the strong odor of its leaves. 
A suffruticose species with strong branching stems 
two to three feet high, it forms a compact rounded 
mass which with its broad bright leaves and large 
flowers made gayer by the long spreading styles 
and stamens is very attractive. It comes from the 
Mediterranean Region but seems nevertheless 
nearly or quite hardy. Of easy cultivation, it re- 
quires a dry position and some winter protection. 
Variety minus is a form with smaller flowers. 
Hookertanum or oblongifolium is a thin growing 
sub-shrub two and a half feet high with good foli- 
age and large flowers in clusters of several. It is 
hardy, coming from the Himalayas 8,000-1 2,000 feet 
above the sea-level and is considered abroad one 
of the best species from its beautiful somewhat cup- 
shaped flowers. It is said to become eight feet 
high in India. 
Kalmianum is a species rare in the native state 
confined to Niagara Falls, where it was first found, 
and the Great Lakes. It is a low-growing spread- 
ing shrub two to three feet high with rather con- 
torted stems. Its leaves are narrow, one to two 
inches long and crowded, and its numerous flowers 
small. It is capable of enduring considerable dry- 
ness and is easily adapted to the garden, succeed- 
ing well in the shade. While not so showy as some 
other species it is a valuable kind both from its 
bright narrow leaves and its hardiness. 
Moserianum, a most brilliant specimen, is a hy- 
brid, credited to M. Moser of France, of H. patu- 
Inm and H. calycinum, generally resembling the 
latter but losing its coarseness and surpassing both 
parents in good qualities. It is suffruticose, two 
feet high, erect with tips pendulous and bearing 
large cup-shaped flowers whose brilliant yellow is 
heightened by the numerous tufted red-tipped 
stamens. It is worthless at the north, however, 
from lack of hardiness, but farther south it is a 
good shrub, best in masses and better adapted to 
the herbaceous border than the shrubbery. It is 
sometimes used as a pot-plant. 
Patulum is a low, gracefully spreading, ever- 
green shrub, one and a half feet high with many 
purplish arching branches and large flowers. Com- 
ing from China and Japan, it is nevertheless not 
very hardy but where it succeeds it is one of the 
best. While not so showy as some American forms 
it is most graceful and delicate, and one of the best 
for rock-gardens. The earliest to bloom. 
Prolificu-ni is a stout, bushy, native shrub three 
to five feet high diffusely branched with broad 
leaves and large flowers in profusion. It is a strong, 
hardy shrub found in sandy and rocky soil through 
the Middle and Southern states, and is considered 
one of the most satisfactory and healthy Hyperi- 
cums. Its bright flowers and attractive foliage 
make it a fine species growing rapidly in ordinary 
garden soil and flowering regularly and profusely. 
A. Phelps Wyman. 
