. Lawns and gardens. How to plant and beautify the home lot, the pleasure ground and garden . summer. Fine for naturalizing onmoist, grassy shores. Both are perennial but may be propa-gated freely by means of seeds. Musk (J/, moscliuti/s) is asmall trailing plant with numerous yellow flowers all sum-mer. It is flue for rockeries, window boxes, and vases, andmay be raised annually from seeds. Shell Flower, PenMemon barbatus.—One of our mostbeautiful native plants, of an erect but slender and gracefulhabit, with bright flowers late insummer. Stem three or four feethigh with smooth, lanceolate le
. Lawns and gardens. How to plant and beautify the home lot, the pleasure ground and garden . summer. Fine for naturalizing onmoist, grassy shores. Both are perennial but may be propa-gated freely by means of seeds. Musk (J/, moscliuti/s) is asmall trailing plant with numerous yellow flowers all sum-mer. It is flue for rockeries, window boxes, and vases, andmay be raised annually from seeds. Shell Flower, PenMemon barbatus.—One of our mostbeautiful native plants, of an erect but slender and gracefulhabit, with bright flowers late insummer. Stem three or four feethigh with smooth, lanceolate leaves;flowers bright scarlet, tubular, witha bearded lip, collected in looseracemes or panicles. One of the bestplants for a border or for moistplaces on the shores of rivulets orlakes or in open places in shrub-beries. Thrives best in a well-drainedbut moist and rich soil. The varietyTorreyii is larger with deeper coloredflowers. The hybrid pentstemous ofEuropean gardens may be grownwith success in the South ; they areextremely beautiful and floriferousplants with flowers of many colors. FIQ. 151.—BEARDED PENTSTEMON (PENTSTEMON BARBATUS TORREYII). 344 herbaceous plants. and of a more compact habit than the shell flower. Theymust be grown in a well-drained, sandy soil, in beds thatshould be covered with leaves in winter. There are several showy aud perfectly hardy Americanspecies that may be grown in shrubberies or borders in light,well-drained soil. The best are : P. Cobcea, flowers twoinches long, purple or sometimes white. Height one or twofeet. P. grandiflorus, as tall as the preceding species;flowers showy, lilac-purple. P. Havtwegii, a Southern spe-cies, somewhat tender; may be wintered in a frame andplanted out in beds in summer. Flowers very beautifulscarlet-crimson, pauicled. Height two feet. THE ACANTHUS FAMILY. Acanthe, Acanthus: mollis.—An old-fashioned plant withpretty, large, heart-shaped, lobed leaves, forming a fine massof foliage. Flowers insignificant, in
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