34 GAKDENIKG FOR PLEASURE. 



List Xo. 2. Average hlght 



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1. Caladium esculentum, leaves large green .-. 5 



2. Japanese Maize, leaves striped white and yellow. 5 



3. Coleus Verschaffeltii, leaves chocolate crimson. A 



4. Delphinium bicolor, flowers blue and white 3 



5. Cypenis altemifolius var., leaves white and green 2i 



6. Achyranthes Verschaffeltii, leaves crimson 2 



7. Mountain of Snow Geranium, leaves white and gi-een \k 



8. Tropfeolum Ball of Fire, flowers flame color .__1 



9. Echeveria metallica, leaves gi'ay, metallic lustre I 



10. Altemanthera paroBychioides aurea, carmine i 



It will be understood that these lists of plants can be 

 transposed in any way necessary to suit beds of all widths, 

 keeping in view, that where small beds are placed near 

 w^alks the lower growing kinds are most sniiable, while 

 for beds at greater distances from walks, or other points 

 of view, the taller growing kinds must be used. Very 

 fine effects are produced by planting on a lawn a single 

 specimen of stately habit, such as some varieties of the 

 Ricinus, or Castor Oil Bean, which grow ten and twelve 

 feet in hight in one season, and are particularly striking 

 plants. Or, instead of this, a mass of six, eight, or twelve 

 plants of Scarlet Sage will form a group six feet high by 

 as many in diameter, and its dazzling scarlet color, con- 

 trasting against the green of the lawn, is superb. Many 

 of the Amaranths are also well suited for planting in sin- 

 gle groups. Amarantiis tricolor gigantea (Joseph's Coat) 

 grows to the hight of six feet, and its leaves, in the late 

 summer and fall months, exceed in brilliancy of color any- 

 thing we know of in foliage ; scarlet, crimson, and golden 

 3^ellow predominating. Another, the Amaraiitus ticolor 

 ruber, grows to the hight of five feet, and is plumed with 

 scarlet crimson. In contrast to these, plants of a more 

 somber tint may be used, in individual specimens or in a 

 group of such as Pampas Grass {Gynerium argenteiim), 

 or the Ravenna Grrass {Eriantlius Ravennce), Each of 

 these attain a hight from six to ten feet, and have a 



