. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. THE COLUMBINE. Aqtlih'ijia r/ihirtrh NCE more we have to discourse upon an "old-fashioned" garden llower that everybody knows and loves^ and yet very few make it the sulijeet of an>' special care in cultivation. It is as- tonishing how well it can take care of itself, as indeed do all the aquilegias, for they scatter their seeds freely and appear in all sorts of places, and it requires a- rough hand and hard heart t(i root them out and call them " weeds.'^ According to the da- mnation of the word from the
. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. THE COLUMBINE. Aqtlih'ijia r/ihirtrh NCE more we have to discourse upon an "old-fashioned" garden llower that everybody knows and loves^ and yet very few make it the sulijeet of an>' special care in cultivation. It is as- tonishing how well it can take care of itself, as indeed do all the aquilegias, for they scatter their seeds freely and appear in all sorts of places, and it requires a- rough hand and hard heart t(i root them out and call them " weeds.'^ According to the da- mnation of the word from the Latin colinithina, a columl)ine should Lear a likeness in some way or other to a dove or pigeon. If there be any resemblance, however, it is of a round- abont sort. The nectaries are rather ])eculiar, and may be likened to the heads of j^'geons. The Latin name aquilegia means " like an eagle," and so in Ijoth languages the flower suggests the existence of a bird. The common columbine is a British jjlant, by no. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hibberd, Shirley, 1825-1890; Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909. London : Cassell
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