PERENNIALS FOR DIFFERENT PURPOSES : Page 612


Viola odorataScented Violet

b. Perennials for spring—white flowers:

Anemone pennsylvanica Aquilegia nivea grandiftora

Canadian Windflower White Columbine

Anemone sylvestris Arabis albida

Snowdrop Windflower Rock Cress

Plate XXXII. In the permanent planting no flowering tree or shrub deserves more favourable consideration thanthe fine type of Scheidecker's semi-double rose-flowering crab illustrated above. (See page 251)

Plate XXXIII. As a specimen flowering plant for early spring effect, theJapanese weeping rose-flowered cherry is extremely interesting, covered, al-ways before the leaves appear, with an abundance of rose-pink flowers. (Seepage 154, group XIX-A)

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