. Lawns and gardens. How to plant and beautify the home lot, the pleasure ground and garden . th a deeply cut terminal leaflet. Flowers of the color ofpeach blossoms, in large panicled cymes on stems from twoto eight feet high. Moist places in a rockery ; shores ofrivers and lakes. , a Japanese species, is equallydesirable. It has palmate leaves and corymbose paniclesof bright crimson-colored flowers. Groats-Beard (S. Aruncus).—This is a very tall and ro-bust plant with ample pinnately-compouud leaves and num-erous whitish spicate flowers in compound panicles. Finefor the same purpose
. Lawns and gardens. How to plant and beautify the home lot, the pleasure ground and garden . th a deeply cut terminal leaflet. Flowers of the color ofpeach blossoms, in large panicled cymes on stems from twoto eight feet high. Moist places in a rockery ; shores ofrivers and lakes. , a Japanese species, is equallydesirable. It has palmate leaves and corymbose paniclesof bright crimson-colored flowers. Groats-Beard (S. Aruncus).—This is a very tall and ro-bust plant with ample pinnately-compouud leaves and num-erous whitish spicate flowers in compound panicles. Finefor the same purpose as the previous kinds. It may also beplanted in shrubberies and as a specimen plant on thelawn. Bowmans Root, (rillt nia trifoliata.—A tall and slenderperennial with trifoliate leaves and loose panicles of whiteor pale rose-colored flowers. This, as well as all themeadow-sweets, requires rich soil. herbaceous plants?. 3°9 Waldsteinia, Waldsteinia fragarioides.—An insignifi-cant plant grown in rockeries. Leaves rather pretty, yellow. On grassy or rocky ^r^lAfof^l^if?>, : FIG. 138.— GOATS-BEARD SPIR/EA ARUNCUSI. Water Avens, Gewm rivals.—A very floriferous river-side plant of grassy, sunny banks. Flowers nodding. Sta-mens and pistils large, petals purplish. The numerouswild hybrids of this and G. ursmum are well worth glow-ing even in choice rockeiies. They flower all summer andsome are <piite showy, with large yellow or reddish-yellowflowers. They grow beautifully along roads and stonefences in Northern Europe; seldom cultivated. Gewmcocci tun in is a dwarf plant with lyrate-pinnatifid leavesand large crimson-purple flowers. The mountain avens () is another dwarf and very desirable kind of a 3io Iberbaceous plants. similar habit, with erect yellow flowers. Both are beauti-ful plants for rockeries. Cinquefoil, Potentilla.—Few of these are of any realornamental value. Some are ueat rock plants, and deserve cultivation on
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