. Lawns and gardens. How to plant and beautify the home lot, the pleasure ground and garden . compact, tuftedmasses, producing numerous pale-blue or white flowers onleafty stems. Fiue for edging and for making a nice under-growth in beds of summer flowers. Grows well in ordinarygarden soil. The following are attractive wild forms growing onsandy fields, in woodlands aud meadows: common blueviolet ( V. cucullatd), a large androbust species growing in massesalong meadow brooks and rivuletsin open woods. It forms quite afeature of the scenery in springand early summer. Flowers large,blue, on tall
. Lawns and gardens. How to plant and beautify the home lot, the pleasure ground and garden . compact, tuftedmasses, producing numerous pale-blue or white flowers onleafty stems. Fiue for edging and for making a nice under-growth in beds of summer flowers. Grows well in ordinarygarden soil. The following are attractive wild forms growing onsandy fields, in woodlands aud meadows: common blueviolet ( V. cucullatd), a large androbust species growing in massesalong meadow brooks and rivuletsin open woods. It forms quite afeature of the scenery in springand early summer. Flowers large,blue, on tall scapes six or eightinches high. The leaves are kid-ney-shaped, borne on tall for naturalizing in moist lawnsor shrubberies, or on the shores ofrivers and lakes. Canadian violet FIQ- ^.-cviola cucullata).( V. Canadensis) is a tall and leafy form growing a foothigh or more; flowers violet-purple, throughout the sum-mer ; woodland species. Birdfoot violet ( V. pedatd). Anexceedingly pretty and showy plant of dwarf habit grow-ing abundantly in light, sandy soil. Flowers numerous,. 294 herbaceous plants. bright blue, late in spring. This is an excellent plant forrockeries, or mixed with the grass in sandy lawns, or onbare hillsides. THE HYPERICUM FAMILY. St. Johns Wort.—Numerous species of Hypericum areknown by this name. All are more or less pretty, tall andbranched herbs with opposite leaves and yellow be grown on grassy river banks, or naturalized asroad-side plants. All thrive best in rich soil. THE PINK FAMILY. Carnations and Picotees, Dianihus caryophyllus.—Wellknown garden plants, not hardy in the extreme North. Theyform tufts of fine glaucous leaves, and produce flowers allsummer. There are countless varieties with double flowersof all colors between pure white and deep carmine. Varie-ties with one-colored or striped flowers are true carnations ;those in which the ground color is edged with a narrowband of another color are termed picotees by Eng
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