ALPHABETICAL LIST OF PLANTS 245 
H. aurantiaca major. Deep orange, sweet-scented flowers, 
growing 2 to 4 feet high. 
H Ajax. Orange-yellow, very fine. 
H. Beronii. A new hybrid, flowers of clear citron-yellow. 
H Citrina . Pale citron-yellow, 2 to 4 feet high. 
H. Dr Regal. A new, late-flowering hybrid, with apricot 
flowers of fine form, feet high. 
H.flava major. Butter-yellow, 2 to 3 feet high. 
H. Flamid. A new, early-flowering orange-coloured hybrid. 
H. Sir Michael Foster. Soft apricot-yellow, 3 feet high. 
H. Sovereign. Yellow and bronze. 
//. Kwanso. Foliage variegated, double bronzy-yellow flowers 
very fine. 
H. ochroleuca. Pale primrose-yellow. 
HEPATICA, “ The Flowering Liverwort.” 
(N.O. Ranunculaceae.) 
Useful front-row plants, flowering in early spring, forming- 
compact clumps and preferring sandy loam, well enriched, and peat 
mould. They like a shady and moist position, where they will 
obtain shade in the summer and sun in the spring. Can be planted 
in October or November, or even when in flower in March. Pro- 
pagation by division, but it does not do to disturb them more than 
once in six or seven years. Will also grow from seed sown in 
sandy soil in cold frame. 
H. angulosa. Large single flowers, rich hlue. 
H. ,, alba. White. 
H. „ lilacina. Lavender-blue. 
H. ,, rosea. Pink. 
H. triloba alba. White. 
H. „ alba floreplena. Double white, recently reintro- 
duced after having been lost for many years. 
H. ccerulea. Light blue. 
H. ,, floreplena. Double light blue. 
H. rosea plena. Double pink. 
HESPERIS, “ Rocket.” (N.O. Cruciferse.) 
Fine old herbaceous plant, deliciously scented, and blooming when 
flowers are scarce for cutting, namely, in May. The single and tall 
varieties in white, mauve, or purple are very easy of cultivation, and 
are not particular as to soil or situation. Are best grown from seed 
sown in April out of doors, and transplanted in June. The double 
varieties are much more difficult to grow, and are very apt to die 
