. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. THE EVERLASTING PEA. Lnthynis hitlj'uliiix. ()\E of the okl-fashioned flowers, as it is the new fashion to call them, can fairly stand hefore the half-dozen sorts of everlasting peas that may be met with in gardens where fashion is unknown and beanty is jn'e-eminent. When they have held their ground a few years, and have made great bosses of rampant growth, crowned and crowded with flowers, they are altogether glorious. They are a little too riotous in temper, too exuberant in spn'eading themselves about, for the very trim
. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. THE EVERLASTING PEA. Lnthynis hitlj'uliiix. ()\E of the okl-fashioned flowers, as it is the new fashion to call them, can fairly stand hefore the half-dozen sorts of everlasting peas that may be met with in gardens where fashion is unknown and beanty is jn'e-eminent. When they have held their ground a few years, and have made great bosses of rampant growth, crowned and crowded with flowers, they are altogether glorious. They are a little too riotous in temper, too exuberant in spn'eading themselves about, for the very trim garden where straight lines prevail and the knife and shears are kept con- stantly at work ; and yet it must need a curious frame of mind in any one who, having seen a clump of everlasting peas in flower, should after that desire to limit their growth or put them out of the garden altogether. The rambling botanist vs'ho cares not for garden flowers will scarcely turn aside from these, for they will remind him of some of the glorious wildings of the pea tribe he N. 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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