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kept under glass all the winter, is quite hardy on our cold clay soil 

 at Stoke Newington, and we may, therefore, select it with safety as 

 one of the finest things discoverable for a lawn clump in any place 

 enjoying a climate as good as that of London. The severe winter 

 of 1870-71 did not hurt any of our agapanthuses that were planted 

 out, and we intend henceforth to employ these noble plants as headers, 

 leaving them out with tritomas and lilies to take their share of 

 winter discomforts. 



Anemone vitifolia Honorine Jobert, which produces a number of 

 lovely white flowers resting on an ample vine-like leafage during the 

 late summer months. It is a grand plant for a clump, or to form a 

 front line to a clump of lilies. 



Aquilegia glandulosa would make a telling clump, say about six 

 plants standing apart from everything else. 



Anuidinaria falcata is already much employed as an isolated 

 adornment of the grass, and needs only to be mentioned. 



Astilbe rivularis is a fine lawn plant for the neighbourhood of 

 water, and any part of the lawn not highly dressed. 



Bocconia cordata and B. frutescens are extremely handsome when 

 in a thriving state, producing large spreading masses of the most 

 handsome leafage. 



Gi/neriicm argenteum, the well-known " Pampas grass," is so 

 thoroughly appreciated and universally grown that it is sufficient 

 to name it in its proper place in the list. 



Hydrangea hortensis and PL. japonica are both hardy and mag- 

 nificent plants. To do justice to them as lawn plants, the beds in 

 which they are planted should be deeply dug and enriched with an 

 abundance of fat manure, and during the summer copious and 

 frequent supplies of water should be given. It is scarcely a misuse 

 of terms to say they will take " any quantity" of water. 



Lilium giganteum is quite hardy on the heavy damp soils of Stoke 

 Newington and Tottenham, and attains to perfect development 

 without any special preparation of the soil or protection in winter. 

 A nobler lawn plant cannot be found in the world. Liliums, gene- 

 rally speaking, are not so well adapted for clumps and beds as some 

 enthusiastic writers represent, owing to their tendency to die down 

 early in the season, and the comparatively brief duration of their 

 flowers. 



Pceonia arborea and P. officinalis may be planted freely, and 

 there is an almost endless variety in both sectious. They are extra- 

 vagantly showy when in flower, but are scarcely first-class lawn 

 plants, because they become coarse and shabby soon after their 

 flowering is over. Probably P. officinalis tenuifolia, which has 

 finely-divided fennel-like leaves, would make an interesting and 

 beautiful lawn clump. 



Polygonum cuspidatum is the perfection of a lawn plant, but it 

 has one very bad habit, that of travelling fast and far. We have 

 been compelled lately to move a magnificent plant from a lawn, 

 because of its persistency in sending up shoots far away from its 

 proper centre. To keep it in its place it would be well to form some 

 kind of wall around its roots. To give an idea of the sore of wall 



