The American journal of horticulture and florist's companion . great profusion. It isone of the most elegant of our native plants, and can vie with any exotic ingrace and beauty. In color, the flowers vary from deepest lavender to purewhite ; have a delicate, pleasant fragrance; and last long in perfection. Itprefers a light, sandy soil, and sometimes covers dry, barren fields with asheet of color. The root is perennial, and the plants increase in sizeyearly. The general opinion that it cannot be cultivated is a great mistake. Violets. 285 We grow it plentifully in the garden, where it comes u
The American journal of horticulture and florist's companion . great profusion. It isone of the most elegant of our native plants, and can vie with any exotic ingrace and beauty. In color, the flowers vary from deepest lavender to purewhite ; have a delicate, pleasant fragrance; and last long in perfection. Itprefers a light, sandy soil, and sometimes covers dry, barren fields with asheet of color. The root is perennial, and the plants increase in sizeyearly. The general opinion that it cannot be cultivated is a great mistake. Violets. 285 We grow it plentifully in the garden, where it comes up year after year, andincreases. The only care is to transplant it, when in bloom, with a ball ofearth: of hundreds moved in this way, we have never lost a plant. The common upland l)lue violets are among the earliest of our indigenousspring flowers ; but, in New England, they are seldom found before the firstof May. This violet ( F. ciicullata) is very variable in all its parts, andvarieties are often mistaken for species : the leaves vary in shape, and the. flowers in size and in color, which is every shade, from nearly white todeepest blue. The large blue violet of our marshes, in some of its forms, seems to runinto the last species, but is generally considered distinct, and is known asV. sagittata. The flowers are generally large, long-stemmed, light or darkblue. These two species often are sufficiently abundant to make the fieldsblue with the flowers. 286 Violets. The wild white violets are V. blanda, lanceolata, 2inA primulcefo/ia. Theyare common in damp soils, and, though not showy, are very pretty. V. blandais slightly fragrant: as a rule, however, our wild violets are without per-fume. The common yellow violet is Viola pubescens: the flowers are yellow,bearded, veined with purple. All these are worthy of a place in the garden if they are not found wildin the vicinity. They readily domesticate themselves, and increase freelyfrom seed, sometimes so rapidly as to become w
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