. Lawns and gardens. How to plant and beautify the home lot, the pleasure ground and garden . herbaceous plants. 271 on the border of a lake or pond in rich masses close to thewaters edge this is a very effective plant. Globe-flower, TrollVus En /-opens.—This is one of our mostbeautiful garden plants. The plants grow singly among thegrass in meadows, and sometimes in rich open woodlands,and, like the preceding kind, form quite a feature of the scen-ery. The globular, yellow flowers are borne on erect, leafystems a foot or more high. Leaves on long petioles pal-mately parted with deeply cut edg
. Lawns and gardens. How to plant and beautify the home lot, the pleasure ground and garden . herbaceous plants. 271 on the border of a lake or pond in rich masses close to thewaters edge this is a very effective plant. Globe-flower, TrollVus En /-opens.—This is one of our mostbeautiful garden plants. The plants grow singly among thegrass in meadows, and sometimes in rich open woodlands,and, like the preceding kind, form quite a feature of the scen-ery. The globular, yellow flowers are borne on erect, leafystems a foot or more high. Leaves on long petioles pal-mately parted with deeply cut edges, handsome. The Asiaticglobe-flower (7! Asiaticus) and the American globe-flower(T. laxus), the former with orange-yellow flowers, are alsofine meadow plants. All are excellent for moist positionsin a rockery or on a lawn and especially on a low FIQ. ROSE (HELLEBORUS NIQER ALTIFOLIUSJ. Christmas Rose, Helleborns niger.—While the snow isstill on the ground the Christmas rose opens its chaste andbeautiful flowers, earlier or later in the season, accordingto the locality where it is grown. The flowers measureseveral inches across and are slightly suffused with purple 272 herbaceous plants. in the typical form. The broad-leaved variety, alt/folncs,has very large, pure white flowers. The leaves are large,pedate, of a leathery texture and deep green. A moist andsheltered position in a rockery or under evergreen shrubs isthe best. The flowers develop fully only when the budsand foliage are kept moist and cool. Broad masses of thisplant early in the season are exceptionally beautiful, espe-cially among evergreen shrubs and trees. Several speciesof helleborus flower later in the season and are generallyknown as Lenten roses. Most beautiful anions these areII. ColcMcus, bright purple, II. Olympic)/*, purple, and //.07i
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