American Cowslip
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American Cowslip (Dodecatheon Meadia) - A graceful plant and a favourite among old border flowers, its slender stems from 10 to 16 inches high, bearing umbels of elegantly drooping flowers, the purplish petals springing up vertically from the pointed centre of the flowers, something like those of the greenhouse Cyclamen. It loves a rich light loam, and is one of the most suitable plants for the rock garden, for choice mixed borders, or for the fringes of beds of American plants.
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Dodecatheon Integrifolium
Dodecatheon Integrifolium - A lovely flower; the petals have a white base, and spring from a yellow and dark orange cup, the flowers deep rosy crimson, on stems from 4 to 6 inches high, in March. It is a native of the Rocky Mountains, and a choice plant for the rock garden, if planted in sandy peat or sandy loam with leaf-mould. Strong well-established plants produce abundance of seed, which should be sown soon after it is gathered. Careful division.
Dodecatheon Jeffreyi
Dodecatheon Jeffreyi - A stout kind, more than 2 feet high in good soil, with larger and thicker leaves than D. Meadia, reddish midribs strong and conspicuous, and the flower somewhat larger and darker. D. Jeffreyi is a hardy and distinct plant, thriving best in light, rich, and deep loam, in a cool and sheltered spot, where its great leaves are not broken by high winds.
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