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FERULAS AS DECORATIVE HAEDY PLANTS. 



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general crop to sow as late as possible. In 1871 I had sound carrots wliicli were 

 not sown until the middle of August, and the greater part of them were in the 

 ground till spring. Last season my general and best crop of carrots was sown 

 about the first of July. Perhaps in both cases the " life-time " of the carrot-fly 

 was past before the seed came up, and thus the crops were saved. I adopted late 

 sowing in consequence of observing that the grubs did not attack the young 

 carrots which filled up the blanks of the diseased crops. I have either read or 

 have been told that good Carrots cannot be grown in some parts, especially in 

 Forfarshire, owing to the ravages of the grub ; perhaps if late sowing were 

 adopted, the case may be otherwise. — J. Wighton, Cosseij Park. 



FERULAS AS DECORATIVE HARDY PLANTS. 



^1!|,'^EW of the Fenilus arc as yet familiar in gardens, and yet for leaf-beauty 

 Cllir^ they arc probably unsurpassed by any hardy plants. They form deeply- 



f penetrating, fleshy roots, and hence thrive better on light or deep, than 

 on close heavy soils, and by mid-winter they begin in many cases to push 

 up their young leaves, which keep growing on, unheeding the weather, till by 

 about March or April they form grand tufts of foliage four or five feet through, 

 and excessively compound, being made up of an almost endless number of small 

 leaflets, which are either thread-like, or narrow lance-shaped, or lozenge-shaped in 

 the species most frequently seen, namely, F. tingitana, F. glauca^ F. Ferulago, 

 and F, communis., of which latter we introduce a woodcut from Mr. Hemsley's 



