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- Drawn (Chauviere), lilac with crimson purple centre, good form 
and a large even trusser. 
Aroion (Dufoy), deep puce, of good average form, rich in colour, 
but a somewhat small trusser. 
ELEANOR DE GuYANNE (Chauviere), blush, shaded and bordered 
with rosy lilac, very pretty, and of good size and form. 
Cuavuvieril (Chauviere), bright vermillion red, mouth of the tube 
white, surrounded with a very dark ray; of medium size and tolerable 
shape. 
eater (Chauviere), lively rosy-purple, with small white centre, 
new in colour and of good habit. 
Monseieneur AFrre (Dufoy), bright rosy-vermillion with a pale 
yellow centre, large and rather better than the average form. 
MADEMOISELLE JAMET (Chauviere), flesh with bright carmine 
centre, large flower and a fine trusser. 
ON PLANTING ORNAMENTAL SHRUBS IN MASSES. 
BY A NOBLEMAN’S GARDENER. 
For many years this highly ornamental and valuable class of plants 
has been a great favourite with me, and in the grounds belonging to 
the establishment I have the honour to be connected with, there is one 
of the finest collections of ornamental shrubs in Great Britain. The 
present season of the year is fruitful in their beauties, and I am com- 
pelled to forward a few thoughts on what has been my practice and 
recommendation with this charming tribe. I admire the grandeur of 
a large number of any particular ornamental species, or even of an 
entire genus, but I much prefer giving greater variety, by a judicious 
mixture of the different kinds of different families, such standing out 
amidst other and far varying forms and colours, produce by their con- 
trast in form and colours a proportionate striking effect. 
Sometimes the peculiar soil or situation which shrubs require, has 
to determine the manner in which they are to be grouped ; and, sin- 
gularly enough, it is found that those demanding these peculiar cir- 
cumstances, can be associated in a general mass with the greatest 
propriety, or will, for the most part, look well in masses of one species, 
or of the members of one genus. Of these, the tribe for which heath~- 
mould and a somewhat sheltered spot are desirable, may be brought 
forward as examples. : 
Cultivators scarcely seem yet to have appreciated shrubs at their full 
value for grouping purposes. They are commonly employed only at 
the margins of plantations to complete the slope from the trees down 
to the flower-borders or walks, or planted very sparingly as detached 
specimens. Their extreme suitableness for growing in beds, furnished 
with one or many species, and having no trees in their centre, nor 
herbaceous plrnts round the outside, is most strangely overlooked in 
the majority of places. In the secluded dells which may exist, or be 
made in large domains, such beds, scattered effectively over the turf 
with which the spot may be covered, have an air of little less than en- 
chantment, and can be aptly stocked with all kinds of the tribe termed 
American plants. Lawns in the vicinage of plant-houses, too, or 
fronting small residences, or even around the most stately mansions, 
