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one year, in July, I think it was in 1844, his taking me to the garden 

 before mentioned, filled with herbaceous plants, and posting me on one 

 particular spot, by the corner of a greenhouse, from whence the whole 

 could be viewed at a glance; "There," says he, with an air of well 

 merited triumph, " Did you ever see anything better than that?" — I 

 replied, " No ! " " Nor I either, and 1 do say there is nothing near 

 London like it ; that is all I have got to say about London gardens ; Mrs. 

 Lawrence's plants are fine, and so they are at Kew, but there's nothing 

 out o ' doors but Geraniums and Verbenas, Verbenas and Calceolarias, in 

 every garden I went to, and I've a mind never to go so far again to see 

 so many places all just alike." 



I forget the size of this garden, but it was considerable, and filled 

 entirely with herbaceous plants, and I know that from early spring to 

 near Christmas there was always an interesting display ; from June to 

 October, a splendid one ; and, taking variety of outline, habit and 

 colour, into consideration, and the way they were arranged, it was 

 certainly the best managed garden 1 ever saw of the kind. 1 could 

 mention half-a-dozen other gardens, which, twenty years back, were 

 resplendent with herbaceous plants, were it ot any use. But this long 

 digression must end, and take me to the subject I started with — a list 

 of the best herbaceous plants. 



LIST OF SOME OF THE MOST SHOWY GENERA OF HERBACEOUS 



PLANTS. 



Genera. Principal Species. 



Achillea . . Millefolium rubra, 

 Ptarraica flore pleno, and tomen- 

 tosa 

 Aconitum . bicolor and japonicum 

 Adonis . . vernalis 

 Ajuga . . . geneveusis 

 Alstrcemeria . aurea, pulchella, chi- 

 lensis,and many others 

 Alysum . . gemonense and saxatiJe 

 Auchusa . . paniculata 

 Anemone. . japonica and all thesps. 

 Authericum . liliago and ramosum 

 Aquilegia . glandulosa, canadensis, 



and vulgaris 

 Arabis . . . albida-aud lucida 

 Armeria . . formosa 

 Asclepias . . tuberosa and others, fine 



for beds 

 Asphodelus . luteus and ramosus 

 Aster . . . amellus, cyaneus, mul- 

 liflorus, elegaus, ramosus, and 

 ( thers 

 Astrantia . . major 

 Aubrietia . deltoidea 

 Bellis . . . perennis, all the varieties 

 Bapthalium . salicifolium 

 Calystegia . sepium iucarnatum 

 Campanula . persicifolia, glomerata, 



speciosa, and all the species 

 Catananche . bicolor and ccerulea 



Genera. Principal Species. 

 Centaurea . leucantha, macrocephala, 



and montana 

 Cheiranthus Marshalli and ochroleucus 

 Chelone . . barbata, glabra, Lyoni 

 Helonias . . bullatus 

 Hemerocallis flava and rutilans 



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