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of their respective section and type of growth—the second named kind 
well known to all lovers of spring flowers as the “ Hoop Petticoat 
Narcissus.” They are remarkably neat, dwarf, and compact, spring¬ 
flowering bulbous-rooted plants, four to six inches high, with.slender 
dark green rush-like leaves, and comparatively large and conspicuously 
beautitul orange yellow Narcissus-like flowers, differing from many 
other species in having a much smaller outer frill-like belt, from which, 
at a distance, the blossoms appear like rich golden flower tubes grace¬ 
fully reclining from the centre of the grass-like foliage, with which 
they are finely contrasted. The first named species is readily distin¬ 
guished by its erect and more slender herbage. 
18. Veronica caucasica. —A neat dwarf spring-flowering herbaceous 
plant, six to nine inches high, with numerous racemes or spikes of pale 
azure-blue blossoms from the second week in May until the middle of 
June. 
19. Anemone Scarlet Soldier\ Plighly ornamental compact perennial 
20. ,, Josephine y varieties, six inches high, with 
brilliant double scarlet flowers, nearly two inches wide, yielding a 
successive bloom throughout the summer season by repeated plantings 
about 10 weeks previous to the required periods of display. 
21. Campanula rostia? (C. hostis, of nurseries).—A remarkably 
neat, dwarf, compact, summer flowering, hardy perennial herbaceous 
plant, 12 inches high, with smooth narrow lanceolate dark-green 
leaves, and numerous .terminal spike-like racemes of conspicuously 
rich purplish blue bell-shaped flowers, in July and August. Ibis valu¬ 
able species is perhaps the best of its extensive genus for effect, en 
masse, during its season. 
22. Campanula rotundifolia alba. —Much similar in habit and growth 
to the preceding species but somewhat taller, producing at the same 
period many terminal graceful spike-like racemes of pendent white 
bell-shaped flowers upon slender upright stems twelve to sixteen inches 
high. 
23. Genista tinctoria pleno. —A very neat and ornamental hardy 
perennial half-shrubby plant of dwarf compact habit, with small dark- 
green narrow leaves, and numerous terminal branch-like racemes or 
spikes of golden-yellow blossoms, from July until September.. 
24. Campanida carpatica. —A hardy summer and autumn flowering 
perennial herbaceous plant, of neat erect compact bushy habit, twelve 
inches high, producing a profusion of comparatively large expanded 
blue bell-shaped flowers, upwards of an inch wide, from July until 
October. 
25. Campanula carpatica nirea. —Like the foregoing species, a dwarf 
and compact summer and autumn-flowering variety, producing a 
profusion of comparatively large and conspicuous snow-white bell¬ 
shaped blossoms, nearly IJ inches wide, from July until September. 
A late bloom for early autumn effect may be obtained from the two 
last ornamental plants by cutting off’ about one-third or more in length 
of the advancing flower stems about the latter end of June or early in 
July. 
26. (Enothera macrocarpa. —A neat and hardy ornamental herba- 
