. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. CHOICE HARDY BORDER PLANTS. 87 flowers of exquisite beauty, rising not more than a couple or three inches from the ground, and pro- duced continuously throughout the summer. In some plant lists it is classed as a species of Viola, and a Violet it is indeed, hut a Violet of the Southern Hemisphere, one at home under a Port Jackson sun, but without the vigour and depth of colour of our northern Sweet Violet, yet hav- ing a simple loveliness that makes it acceptable in English gardens, even though it is not hardy enough to stand our winter. Except in very
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. CHOICE HARDY BORDER PLANTS. 87 flowers of exquisite beauty, rising not more than a couple or three inches from the ground, and pro- duced continuously throughout the summer. In some plant lists it is classed as a species of Viola, and a Violet it is indeed, hut a Violet of the Southern Hemisphere, one at home under a Port Jackson sun, but without the vigour and depth of colour of our northern Sweet Violet, yet hav- ing a simple loveliness that makes it acceptable in English gardens, even though it is not hardy enough to stand our winter. Except in very mild districts, it will perish in win- ter, and so we strongly recom- mend that it be grown in pots, housed in a cold frame, and co- vered up in severe frosty weather. "We have grown it in this way with great success. It can be readily propagated by division of the roots, and it is a good plan to break the clumps to pieces in the winter and repot them, and plant them out on a well- i drained bed in a cold frame. It might be planted out in early summer among bedding plants, and used as one of them. Ficaria (Pilewort). — Ficaria is derived from Jicus, " a Fig," in reference to the Fig-shaped little tubers of the root. Pilewort is from pila, '-'a ball," in allusion to the small tubers, and its supposed efficacy as a remedial agent. It is now included under Ranunculus. Our British and very common Ficaria ranunculoides, or Lesser Celandine, would be well deserving of culture were it not so very plentiful. It is to be found in many moist mea- dows, flowering finely and freely in spring. But there are varieties of it that form a pretty and use- ful group of plants, sometimes flowering as early as February. There is the white variety of F. ranuncu- loides, and there is also a fine double garden Erpetion reniforue. They are immense Buttercups, and they will grow under trees and in the grass where it is cool and moist. F. grandiflora is a near relative of ou
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