Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry . assy and open deciduous woods in most countries ofEurope. It delights in partially moist ground around springsand rivulets or on rocky hillsides, where it grows in scatteredtufts among the grass. The species itself has pale blue flow-ers, but there is also a pure white variety common in a wildstate. The stems are simple, bearing a few very large termi-nal and axillary flowers at the top. The root-leaves, whichgive the species its name, are broadly lanceolate, slightlyacuminate; the stem-leaves, on the other hand, are qu
Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry . assy and open deciduous woods in most countries ofEurope. It delights in partially moist ground around springsand rivulets or on rocky hillsides, where it grows in scatteredtufts among the grass. The species itself has pale blue flow-ers, but there is also a pure white variety common in a wildstate. The stems are simple, bearing a few very large termi-nal and axillary flowers at the top. The root-leaves, whichgive the species its name, are broadly lanceolate, slightlyacuminate; the stem-leaves, on the other hand, are quitesmall, linear-lanceolate, very dark green. There are doubleand semidouble varieties with white or blue flowers, commonin gardens, but the species itself and its simple white varietyare the best for general use. They may be grown in rich soilin thickets and shrubberies or in open spaces in woods. Bothare readily increased by means of seeds, and should be raisedin a nursery-bed to be planted out the second year. Convolvulus tricolor.—This dwarf and floriferous annual. Fig. 40.—Oaks in the Churchyard at Paxtang, Pennsylvania.—See page 293. A few Good Garden Plants. Hesperis matronalis.—The many varieties of the DamesRocket, as this beautiful plant is often called, are well known toeverybody. Not so the species itself, which, however, is bothmore attractive and graceful than any of its popular forms. Itgrows to a height of about two feet, bearing loose terminalracemes or panicles of violet-red flowers, which are very fra-grant, especially in the afternoon and evening. The stemsare slender and covered with bright green leaves from six toeight inches long, mostly lanceolate, radical ones stalked andlargest, those of the inflorescence bracteate. It flowers late inspring, in May or June, and is especially effective when run-ning wild in old gardens and orchards, or in groves and hedge-rows. This is one of the most easily naturalized plants, and itincreases rapidly by means o
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