June 30, 1894. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
693 
HARDY HERBACEOUS PLANTS IN 
FLOWER. 
LuPiNUS poLYPHYLLUs. —Most of the cultivated 
species of Lupine are annuals, but L. arboreus is a 
shrub, and a few are perennials including that under 
notice. The stems vary from aft. to 3ft. or more in 
height, according to conditions, and terminate in a 
long, dense raceme of blue flowers that continue to 
expand from thebdse of the inflorescence, upwards 
for some weeks. Just now it is an object of great 
beauty. To be seen at its best the plant must be 
grown in good soil and allowed to attain a consider¬ 
able size. The accompanying illustration was pre¬ 
pared from a photograph of a plant that flowered in 
the garden of Mr. William Marshall, Auchenraith, 
Bexley, and which bore sixty racemes of bloom. 
That is the style in which this showy garden plant 
should be grown. 
Geranium armenum, 
—The intense, crimson 
red flowers of this species 
have a dark zone in the 
centre, and become very 
conspicuous at this sea¬ 
son of the year, not only 
by reason of their colour, 
but also by their size. 
The plant has bold 
foliage and varies con¬ 
siderably in height ac¬ 
cording to the strength 
of the plant, the soil, and 
the season. Some speci¬ 
mens flower when only a 
foot in height, but others 
run up to 2jft. 
Geranium cinereum. 
—In this case the plant 
is more suitable for the 
rockery than the herba¬ 
ceous border, because it 
grows only 6 in. high. 
The leaves are five to 
seven lobed, gray with 
pubescence, and mostly 
spring directly from the 
rootstock. The flowers 
are produced in pairs on 
stalks rising from the base 
of the plant,and are large, 
pale pink, and beautifully 
striped with red. Increase 
is very slow so that cut¬ 
tings should be inserted 
in pots till established. 
Dianthus caesius.— 
The Cheddar Pink in the 
wild state produces only 
one flower as a rule upon 
a stalk; but under cultiva¬ 
tion, rich soil, and prob¬ 
ably seed raising, has 
caused the plant to 
develop much more 
strongly, so that it is no 
uncommon thing to see 
two and three or even 
more flowers upon a 
stem. The blooms are 
delicately scented and of 
a beautiful rosy pink hue. 
Lathyrus Sibthorpii. —Of the several species 
known under the popular name of Everlasting Peas, 
that under notice is one of the most pretty and tfie 
first to flower. The leaves consists of one pair of 
elliptic leaflets and a tendril. The nearest ally of 
this species is probably L. rotundifolia, but that has 
roundish leaflets, brick red flowers, and is not yet 
in bloom. The flowers of L. Sibthorpii are of a 
beautiful, rich rose hue, but the earliest ones have 
given rise to pods of some size and the plants will 
soon be out ot bloom, except, perhaps, in the case 
of young and rampantly growing ones. The species 
has existed many years in the Oxford Botanic 
Garden and has only recently been brought into 
notice. Mr. Baker has raised many seedlings which 
have proved true to the type. 
Achillea mongolica. —When not in bloom, this 
Sneezewort very much resembles the British A. 
Ptarmica in stems, foliage, and habit. Twelve 
inches is the usual height of it and when in bloom 
it is seen to be much superior to our native plant. 
The flowers are much larger with pure white rays. 
The plant is suitable either for the herbaceous 
border or the rockwork. 
Anchusa italica. —At this season of the year 
there is nothing more effective than a good plant of 
this Boragewort. The stems attain a height of 3 ft. 
to 4 ft., and branching produce a great quantity of 
flowers of the richest blue, and which are much 
larger than those of our native A. sempervirens. 
The latter is, however, pretty, and well deserving of 
a place in the border. Both can be propagated by 
division, but the former makes better plants when 
raised from seed. 
Hesperis matronalis alba plena.— The close 
heads of this beautiful and chaste Crucifer make a 
no mean substitute for Intermediate Stocks during 
the early part of summer. In a cool climate or 
when the spring happens to be cool with a fair 
supply of rain the panicles or racemes of bloom 
attain their best development, and can hardly be 
excelled for their purity. The cuttings are always 
very short and give most satisfaction when put singly 
in thumb pots and plunged in a cold frame during 
winter. 
OuRisiA cocciNEA.—The tubular scarlet flowers 
of this uncommon plant are very pretty during the 
early part of summer. The leaves are mostly all 
radical and nearly heart shaped, while the flower 
stem is only 12 in. high. The plant likes plenty of 
moisture, and is grown in a bog by the side of some 
large pieces of sandstone by J. C. Stogdon, Esq., at 
Inglenook, Bellaggio. Wood ashes are also placed 
over the roots of the plant occasionally, and this is 
believed to be one reason for the healthy condition 
of the plants. 
Heuchera sanguinea splendens. —• Several 
variations have already occurred in this beautiful 
border or rockwork plant, but the paler the flowers 
the least interesting compared with the glowing red 
or scarlet of the typical sort; cf course, white and 
pink forms are most appreciated when grown in 
association with the type. That under notice has 
larger flowers than usual, and of the customary rich 
colour. The plant is perfectly hardy and may 
be propagated pretty rapidly by means of cuttings. 
A PRIVATE PLANT CATALOGUE. 
The late Mr. Charles Jenner of Easter Duddingston 
Lodge, Joppa, near Edinburgh, commenced the com¬ 
pilation of a catalogue of all the plants grown in his 
wealthy and well filled garden there, but did not 
live to see its completion. This has since been 
accomplished, and we have now before us a copy of 
the catalogue printed for private circulation. The 
fact that it contains over 4,000 names bears eloquent 
testimony to the lovewhich 
Mr. Jenner had for his 
garden,the amount of time 
he spent in it, and the 
outlay which it must have 
cost him to furnish it in 
the unsparing way in 
which he did it. We had 
the pleasure of inspecting 
his most interesting gar¬ 
den some sixyears ago,and 
were astonished towitness 
the marvellous number of 
plants of all kinds, but 
principally hardy and 
half hardy, which he had 
massed together from all 
quarters of the globe. 
Some of them we noted 
we hardly expected to see 
in the open ground so far 
north ; but the proximity 
of the garden to tha 
Firth of Forth must have 
exercised a considerable 
influence on the relative 
hardiness or tenderness 
of a great many subjects. 
Anything which could be 
planted in the open and 
brought through the 
winter with any degree of 
safety,found a home there. 
The garden is by no 
means a large one, but 
well filled everywhere. A 
set of narrow frames in a 
sheltered position served 
to protect a multitude of 
Alpines, many of which 
would be duplicates of 
those in the open air. 
The rockery was an 
interesting feature of the 
place, as doubtless it is 
still. The garden and sur¬ 
rounding country is rela¬ 
tively flat, and no attempt 
was made to build up 
rocks to a great height; the 
object was rather to pro¬ 
duce an undulating and 
varied scene, where diffe¬ 
rent plants could be suc¬ 
cessfully cultivated. Hardy Ferns, including with 
few exceptions all the British species, as well as 
European and American kinds, so long as they would 
live outside, were tended with great care. Rhodo¬ 
dendrons, Kalmias, Pieris, and other members of the 
Heath family, hailing largely from America, were 
lavishly planted here and succeeded well. 
Trees as well as shrubs were largely planted, so 
long as space could be found for them. Thirty-three 
species and varieties of Maple are recorded in the 
catalogue; twenfy-six Ivies, twenty-four Junipers, 
twenty-eight Spruce Firs, thirty-eight Pines, includ¬ 
ing the rare Pinus aristata, P. monophylla, and P. 
australis, and fifty-seven Rhododendrons, mostly 
species, with a few of their varieties. This latter 
number does not include the garden hybrid Rhodo¬ 
dendron. There were thirty-six species of Roses 
and varieties independently of a large collection of 
hybrid perpetuals. Plagianthus betulinus, one of 
the Ribbon Trees of New Zealand, is hardly ever to 
be seen in this country, yet it succeeds well and 
LuPINUS POLYPHYLLUS IN Mr. W. MARSHALL'S GARDEN. 
