Gerardia

Gerardia - I have never, either in gardens or in the wild land, or in the Alpine mountains, where beauty of plant life is at its highest, seen anything that struck me more than a Gerardia I once met with in the roadside in New Jersey, growing abundantly here and there like a little tree in habit, 15 inches to 18 inches high, bearing most graceful miniature Pentstemon-like flowers, but far more refined in color and distinct in form than any Pentstemon. Naturally I asked why such a plant was not in cultivation, and learnt that the Gerardias are mostly parasites on the roots of other plants. In spite of this, I brought home some seed of one or two kinds and sowed it where I thought it would have some chance, but nothing ever came of it. Gerardia, a genus called after John Gerard, who wrote the famous Herbal in the time of Queen Elizabeth, is, as a group, of the highest interest. I hope that some of them may be introduced. G. tenuifolia is a species long known, which thrives in the open, and forms charming tufts covered with pretty flowers in summer. It is dwarf and bushy in habit, light and graceful in effect with its numerous pale blue flowers.

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