Home and garden; notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a worker in both . irst, change to a dull nankeen colour as thebloom becomes perfect. There is no better plant foran informal edging, or for any alpine carpeting, inlong pools or straight drifts; it delights in a hot place,and, like many silvery-leaved plants, will bear a gooddeal of drought. I am very fond of the double Cuckoo-flower. Ithas such a clean, fresh look, and the doubling makessuch a pretty round rose-shaped flower of each littlebloom. The single wild one of the meadows is apretty plant too, and sometimes grows so thic
Home and garden; notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a worker in both . irst, change to a dull nankeen colour as thebloom becomes perfect. There is no better plant foran informal edging, or for any alpine carpeting, inlong pools or straight drifts; it delights in a hot place,and, like many silvery-leaved plants, will bear a gooddeal of drought. I am very fond of the double Cuckoo-flower. Ithas such a clean, fresh look, and the doubling makessuch a pretty round rose-shaped flower of each littlebloom. The single wild one of the meadows is apretty plant too, and sometimes grows so thickly thatone understands how it came by its old English nameof Ladys-smock; for its close masses of whitish bloommight well remind one of linen wear laid out to years ago a dear old friend among our neigh-bours bought a plant of the double kind. Her meadowwas already well stocked with the wild one, and shehad the happy idea of planting the double one with course of time it increased and spread over a largespace, and was so pretty and pleasant to see that nearly. Cuckoo-flower and Sandwort in the Rock Garden. SMALL ROCK-GARDENS 103 every spring I used to go on purpose to visit it. Andone day, to my great delight, I found among it oneplant of a mucli deeper colour, quite a pretty anddesirable variety from the type, that has proved a goodgarden plant. My friend Mr. George Paul, after grow-ing it for a season, thought so well of it that he took itto a meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society, wherehe received for it a notice of commendation; this, withkindly courtesy, he was good enough to pass on to me,having given my name to the variety. The Cuckoo-flower has a curious way of increasing by dropping itsleaflets; they root at the base, and it is easy to makea panful of cuttings in this way, dibbling in the leaf-lets, and pretty to see the spruce little plants that soongrow from them. It also makes little plants, withroots and all complete, in the axils of the lea
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