. Lawns and gardens. How to plant and beautify the home lot, the pleasure ground and garden . utumn, formingtufts of stiff grassy leaves of a dark shining green. Scapethree or four feet high, bearing a crowded, cylindricalspike of bright coral-red flowers which change into orangeand greenish-yellow. Excellent for dry soil in open andsunny positions: very desirable as a lawn plant. It willthrive in almost any soil. Adams Needle, Yitcca JUamerUosa. — This desirableplant, with several handsome varieties, is very useful forplanting in rockeries and dry, gravelly soil on high knollsand in other exp
. Lawns and gardens. How to plant and beautify the home lot, the pleasure ground and garden . utumn, formingtufts of stiff grassy leaves of a dark shining green. Scapethree or four feet high, bearing a crowded, cylindricalspike of bright coral-red flowers which change into orangeand greenish-yellow. Excellent for dry soil in open andsunny positions: very desirable as a lawn plant. It willthrive in almost any soil. Adams Needle, Yitcca JUamerUosa. — This desirableplant, with several handsome varieties, is very useful forplanting in rockeries and dry, gravelly soil on high knollsand in other exposed and sunny situations. The leaves areevergreen, stiff and leathery, short sword-like, with thread-like tibres on the margin, from thirty to forty or more, in 382 Derbaceous plants. a dense rosette close to the ground. Flowers white, bell-shaped, more r less open, drooping, disposed in a crowdedpanicle rising several feet above the ground. Of the sev-eral varieties, the following are most beautiful: Maxima,flowers larger than in the type, of a purer white ; orchicddes, 4 ^ iL. iis^ffi ?it-UK JPr FIG. 170.—ADAMS NEEDLE (YUCCA FILAMENTOSA). a small, large-flowering variety, with flowers disposed in asimple raceme two feet high or less ; fiacdda, leaves shorter,with more fibres on the margin, panicles looser and moreregular, flowers less open. The yuccas will thrive in anysoil not too moist, and are among the most useful plantsin the hand of a landscape-gardener. THE SPIDEUWOIIT FAMILY. Day-Flower, Commelina Virginica.—A very attractivelittle plant with bright sky-blue flowers ; petals two, con- fterbaceous plants. 38s spicuous; leaves oblong-lanceolate; stem reclining, rooting at the swollen nodes. Fine for rockeries or in moist, light,Or sandy soil in sunny positions, but must be seen in massesto be appreciated. Spiderwort, Tradescantia Virginica. — A somewhatweedy plant with rather showy, violet-blue flowers. Stemserect, two feet high, more or less ; leaves linear-la
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