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SHErBS AXD FLOWEES ^HICH THEIVE TXDEE 

 THE DEIP OF TEEE3. 



IS many of our readers are likely to take an interest in 

 these, we enumerate a few, and shall be much obliged 

 to anybody who will add to them. Japanese Berberises, 

 Philadelphuses. Hollies. Comusalba, sanguinea, Cory- 

 lus Avellana, Daphne Mezereum. Euonymus japonicus, 

 Hvpericum hircinum, Androssemum, and calycinum, Lonicera tar- 

 tarica and Xylosteum, Mespilus germanica, Eosa arrensis, Eubus 

 odoratus, Sambucus nigra and racemosa, Spirsea sorbifolia, Sym- 

 phorlearpns racemosus, Aucubas in variety, Buxus sempervirens, 

 Daphne Laureola, Viburnum Tinus, Euscus racemosus. The Ivies, 

 the Privet, and several of its newer varieties, especially the oval- 

 leaved one, and also the Japanese Privet. 



Of rough-growing herbaceous plants c-uited for covering the 

 ground in summer, the followiDg are good: Hypericum hirsutum, 

 Sambucus Ebulus, Saponaria officinalis, Spiraea auruncus, Yicia 

 sylvatiea, Tinea major and its varieties. Y. minor and its varieties ; 

 the Pampas Grass, Sand Lyme Grass, and Eibbon Gra?3 (three 

 varieties) : Carex pendula, "Willow Herb, Perennial Sunflowers 

 (double and single}, Phytolacca decandria, Siberian Cow Parsnip, 

 Acanthus mollis, Asclepias syriaca, Asperula odorata. Strona: coarse 

 ferns like Lastrea filii mas, of shade-loving tastes, and Digitalis 

 purpurea. 



COXIFEBS FOE THE FLOTTEE GAEDEX AST) ITS 

 IMMEDIATE SUEEOUXDIXGS. 



[OXOTOXY of surface and monotony of vegetation have 

 for a long time past been the bane of our ornamental 

 gardening, and there are fe-x persons of any taste or 

 experience in those matters who do not admit that we 

 must vary both one and the other. . Xo matter what 

 our small-flower treasures or interest, we cannot go on making more 

 important and much-resorted-to parts of our gardens devoid of any 

 beauty beyond that of low and fleeting vegetation. "W'e must rise ; 

 we want in the first place dignified and bold surroundings at all 

 times, and we want permanent interest and beauty. 



It is already admitted that we want verdure and grace, or we 

 tacitly admit it by introducing subtropical plants which are expen- 

 sive to keep, and impossible to cultivate in the open air in many 

 parts of the country. Among conifers we have that comparatively 

 dwarf but pyramidal habit which we want so much, while, when we 

 come close to them and examine them, we find they are in many 

 cases as elegantly chiselled and dissected as the finest fern. Every- 



