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THE GARDENER. 



[Feb. 



The centre plant is a variegated American Aloe, and it is surrounded 

 by Echeveria metallica, the ground betwixt which was covered with 

 Sedum azoideum variegatura. The plants surrounding this centre group 

 were chiefly composed of Echeveria secunda glauca, with a few Patchy- 

 phytums mixed in; while the edging is a line of the pretty hardy Saxi- 

 fraga rosularis, the whole surface of the ground among the dwarf 

 Echeveria being densely covered with the quaint rosette-looking Sem- 

 pervivum Californicum, which the photograph has failed to reach, 

 but which formed quite a feature when the bed was looked down upon. 



Fig. 3. — Sempervivum Giganteum. 



The bed looked natural and easy, giving variety and uniformity com- 

 bined in a small space, and consequently the manner of its make-up 

 we recommend for small resources. 



For larger gardens that can afford to grow such plants by the score 

 or hundred, a series of beds set apart for this order of grouping could 

 not fail to be interesting. Each bed might contain a few varieties in 

 greater numbers of the taller of these grotesque-looking plants, while 



