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of a good many half-shrubby plants incapable of enduring our 

 winter climate. This is not a very ornamental subject, but it 

 is very distinct in foliage, and in the warmer parts of the 

 country will be found useful for introducing into dry warm 

 banks in semi-wild places, where its creeping, suffruticose, freely- 

 rooting stems would soon establish themselves. The plant 

 grows about i8 inches or 2 feet high. The leaves are oblong, 

 lance-shaped, somewhat glaucous, and evergreen. The flowers 

 are thinly produced and yellow, but not very ornamental. 

 Succeeds best in light sandy soil, well drained. Propagate by 

 cuttings or division of the creeping-stems in autumn and spring. 

 The plant should be tried out with caution in the north, or in 

 cold wet places in any part of the country. Native of Barbary. 



Pascalia glauca [Ghmcous-leaved P.) — This, so far as I 

 know, is the only species comprised in this name. It is a 

 pretty and free-flowering plant, about 2 feet high, with broadly- 

 lance-shaped leaves, slightly toothed on the margin and 

 glaucous on the upper side. The stems divide near the top, 

 and each branch terminates in a large deep-yellow flower. I 

 have no experience of the plant north of London ; it is perfectly 

 hardy in that neighbourhood, but may require protection in 

 colder localities. Succeeds well in light, rich, well-drained 

 sandy loam. Propagate by division in spring. Flowers in 

 summer and early autumn. Native of Chili. ' 



Pyrethrum (Feverfew). — This is one of the most ornamental 

 genera of this great family. The flower-gardener's interest is, 

 however, centred in the varieties of two of the species, and they 

 are a host in themselves. Salter's varieties of P. roseuin are 

 very numerous, various, and beautiful, embracing amongst them 

 many shades of colour — white, rose, red, and crimson, in varied 

 tints ; and some varieties are distinguished by combinations of 

 those colours, either shading into each other, or arranged in 

 distinct zones. They are beautiful also in form, very gener- 

 ally having a high quilled centre, in the way of and equally 

 perfect as the globe-quilled China Asters, but usually fringed 

 with broad ray-florets. Their great beauty and free-flowering 

 qualities, and their simple culture, must make them great favour- 

 ites with all ere long, but as yet they are not so generally culti- 

 vated as they deserve. They are particularly commendable to 

 cottagers and other amateurs having limited and imperfect 

 appliances, as their culture and propagation require no other 

 facilities than those required by the hardiest border-plants. 

 They are benefited by periodical removals and division, and 

 by being annually refreshed by a surface-dressing of rich com- 

 post ; and in droughty soil ample supplies of water will be 



