. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. Malvacece—A Ithcea. 8i beautiful, has been quite superseded in gardens by the many splendid double-flowered varieties, ranging in colour from white, yellow, rose, and purple to violet and almost black, with every intermediate shade and tint of these colours. There are many other species of inferior merit, but they are seldom seen in cultivation, except
. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. Malvacece—A Ithcea. 8i beautiful, has been quite superseded in gardens by the many splendid double-flowered varieties, ranging in colour from white, yellow, rose, and purple to violet and almost black, with every intermediate shade and tint of these colours. There are many other species of inferior merit, but they are seldom seen in cultivation, except in botanical collections. 5. LAVATfiRA. Shrubs, occasionally arborescent, or herbs, with angled or lobed leaves and axillary and solitary or clustered or terminal and race- mose flowers. Very near Mdlv'a, but differing in having the three to six lobes of the involucel coherent about half-way up. Car- pels in a flattened whorl, indehiscent. About eighteen species, whereof one is Australian, two are from the Canaries, and the others from the Mediterranean countries. Named in honour of the brothers Lavater, Swiss physicians. 1. L. arborea. Tree Mallow.— A tall biennial species, softly pubescent all over. Leaves large, on long petioles, 5- to 9-lobed, cre- nate. Flowers purple, on short crowded axillary peduncles, about 2 inches across. This has a stout stem throwing off numerous lateral branches, and forms a very hand- some small tree. In rich soil in the South of England it often attains a height of 12 or 15 feet. It is occa- sionally met with on our coasts, but is generally considered to be an introduced plant. 2. L. trimestris (fig. 53).—A common annual species, about 3 feet high, with rosy pink or white solitary axillary flowers with a dark centre. A pretty plant where it has plenty of space, flowering freely for a longer period than many annuals. Spain. 6. MALVA. Hairy or glabrous herbs with angular or lobed leaves and axillary flowers. Involucel of 3 distinct free brac
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