. My garden in summer . e a close relation of V. Chaixii, and like it is quitereliably perennial; its branching stems bear innumerableflowers for a long period. I suspect it of hybridity, as ithas never set any seeds here, but whatever the plant is, ithas nothing to do with nigrum, which the Kew Hand-listdeclares to be the right name for vernale. The Achilleasflat heads of ydllow flowers are very good when seenagainst the sky, giving an outline that is different fromthat of any other tall flower of the season. PotentillaFriedrichsehnii is also yellow, so has some right to benoticed next, and s
. My garden in summer . e a close relation of V. Chaixii, and like it is quitereliably perennial; its branching stems bear innumerableflowers for a long period. I suspect it of hybridity, as ithas never set any seeds here, but whatever the plant is, ithas nothing to do with nigrum, which the Kew Hand-listdeclares to be the right name for vernale. The Achilleasflat heads of ydllow flowers are very good when seenagainst the sky, giving an outline that is different fromthat of any other tall flower of the season. PotentillaFriedrichsehnii is also yellow, so has some right to benoticed next, and so preserve some idea of classificationin my list. I have pruned an old specimen in the rockgarden rather severely, insisting on its only increasingupwards, and have removed all spreading shoots save thosethat spring from somewhere above three feet, and it hasmade a charming specimen, its pillar-shaped lower growthsimproving the effect of the spreading upper half of thebush. Just now it is smothered in its sulphur-yellow. As July Ends flowers like small roses. It is said to be a hybrid betweenP. fruticosa and P. davurica, and the sulphur is certainly in-termediate in colour between the rich yellow and white ofthe parents. P. davurica exists here in two forms ; oneis a congested, close-growing little bush in the rock garden,that has never yet flowered, and I rather fancy is adwarfed, hump-backed, or twisty-tempered monstrositythat never will do much in flowers ; the other grows inthe pergola walk, and has made a fair-sized bush, consider-ing it is sandwiched in between a large specimen ofPhormium tenax and another of Esmllonia langleyensis; andthe picture facing p. 280 will show how good-temperedlyit makes the best of it, and gives pure white flowers onevery shoot, looking so happy among the great, stiff, flagleaves of the Phormium that I have never taken pity onit and moved it to freer quarters. Let us say, How likethe world, where the patient and cheery never get anypity ! and
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