Achilleas Or Milfoils

Of which there are several species or varieties, Ptarmica The Pearl being one of the best.

Aconitums Or Monkshoods

Of which both the blue and the white, Napellus and its variety Albus, are fine plants. The roots are poisonous.

From a Water Colour Drawing by E. A. Rowc. The West Border, Hatfield.

Adonis Vernalis

The yellow spring Ox-eye, a good plant. There is also an autumn-flowering species.

Aethionema Grandiflora

The "Persian Candytuft," which has pretty spikes of rosy-lavender flowers, and is a really charming plant.

Aloysia (Or Lippia) Citriodora

Aloysia (Or Lippia) Citriodora, the Lemon-scented Verbena, which I have previously referred to as having foliage that is highly perfumed in both a green and a dry state. I ought to say that it cannot be wintered out of doors without protection.

Alstromeria Chilensis

Alstromeria Chilensis, the Chilian Herb Lily, a graceful and free-blooming plant, which bears a profusion of orange, scarlet, and pink flowers in summer. When established it needs no cultivation of any kind, except to hoe for weeds; indeed, it is better without interference.

Alyssum Saxatile Compactum

Alyssum Saxatile Compactum, the yellow Rock Mad-wort, so bright in spring in beds and on rockeries; certainly one of our most useful plants.

Anchusa Italica

Anchusa Italica, or the Dropmore variety, which is finer than the old species, Gentian-blue, free-blooming. We have very few plants of the colour.

Androsaces

Androsaces, such as Lactiflora, white, and Laggeri, carmine-rose, two tiny gems for the rockery.

Anemones

Anemones, notably Coronaria, the Crown or Poppy Anemone, of which seedsmen now offer improved strains, such as the St. Brigid. These are splendid plants for large clumps and beds. They spread a covering of Parsley-like foliage over the ground, and throw up flower stems a foot to eighteen inches high, crowned with large, richly coloured flowers. Narcissiflora, the "Daffodil Windflower," as some call it, is a pretty white-blossomed Anemone, and so is Sylvestris, the Snowdrop Anemone.

Anthericiun Liliago

Anthericiun Liliago, the St. Bernard's Lily, and A. Liliastrum, the St. Bruno's Lily, are graceful white-flowered plants.

Antirrhinums (Snapdragons)

Antirrhinums (Snapdragons) may be sown, although, as I have pointed out already, they flower the same year if sown under glass in winter.

Aquilegias (Columbines)

Aquilegias (Columbines)) may be specialised by some, as they are hardy flowers of particular interest. The long-spurred varieties of Caerulea Hybrida are particularly charming, as the colours include some delightful shades of blue and lilac. In Californica Hybrida the prevailing hues are scarlet, orange, and yellow. Chrys-antha, yellow, is one of the most popular Columbines, on account of its colour. The true Glandulosa, lilac and white, is a greatly coveted species. It is scarce and short-lived, but extremely beautiful. Nivea Grandiflora is pure white; and another charming sort, pure as the snow, is Munstead White.