. My garden in summer . e leaves heavily marked with purpleand pretty pink flowers. Its dwarf habit fits it for moistcorners of the rock garden, in company with the gemof the family, which changes its name so often I neverknow what to call it; digitata and lobata are the twonames most often used for it, but very likely both areincorrect. Anyway, it is a treasure, producing palmateleaves only three inches high, and its flower-stems arejust one inch higher, and carry large heads of pinkflowers almost as temptingly strawberry-ice-like as thoseof venusta. Opposite the group of tall Spiraeas thereg
. My garden in summer . e leaves heavily marked with purpleand pretty pink flowers. Its dwarf habit fits it for moistcorners of the rock garden, in company with the gemof the family, which changes its name so often I neverknow what to call it; digitata and lobata are the twonames most often used for it, but very likely both areincorrect. Anyway, it is a treasure, producing palmateleaves only three inches high, and its flower-stems arejust one inch higher, and carry large heads of pinkflowers almost as temptingly strawberry-ice-like as thoseof venusta. Opposite the group of tall Spiraeas theregrows a large tussock of a very beautiful Sedge, withgolden-striped leaves, another of my finds in the Nor-folk Broads. I noticed two or three shoots of a Sedgewith a fine golden band on their leaves, so dropped onmy knees and severed them from the main tuft withmy pocket-knife, brought them home, and planted themwhere they have now formed this fine specimen. Ibelieve it is Carex strictus, quite a common Sedge in its 176. Vuc a rLCUi\il(ilia aiul Spiraea caiiUbchatica. (Sec [i. i7t.) Aquatics ordinary green form. A curious thing about it is that,though the scrap I originally collected throve so wellunder my rough-and-ready treatment, I now find thegreatest difficulty in propagating it, and pieces I havetaken off for myself and others have invariably diedwith the exception of two. The late Mr. Amos Perryalways rubbed his hands with joy when looking at myplant, and used to say, when he had twenty-five guineasto spare he would offer them to me for this plant. But Ihave never yet sold a plant, and I hope I never shall,so one day when I was in a good temper I offered hima chunk out of its side, and we got a fork and prizedout a good dozen or more of crowns, but like others hehad no luck with them, I am sorry to say, for I shouldgreatly like to see this fine variety propagated and dis-tributed far and wide. When the first Spring growthsappear it is not very brilliant, being little mor
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