Introduction^ etc. 



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been used with much effect in the garden. If 

 anybody will select some open grassy spot in a 

 pleasure-garden, or grassy glade near a wood — 

 some spot considered unworthy of attention as 

 regards ornamenting it — and plant a group of 

 three plants of this 

 Polygonum, leaving 

 fifteen feet or so be- 

 tween the stools, a 

 distinct aspect of ve- 

 getation will be the 

 result. The plant is 

 herbaceous, and will 

 spring up every year 

 to a height of from 

 six feet to eight feet if planted well ; it has a 

 graceful arching habit in the upper branches, and is 

 covered with a profusion of small bunches of pale 

 flowers in autumn. It is needless to multiply 

 examples ; the plan is capable of infinite variation, 

 and on that account alone should be welcome to all 

 true gardeners. 



One kind of arrangement needs to be particularly 

 guarded against — the gcomctro-picturesque one, 

 seen in some parts of the London parks devoted to 

 subtropical gardening. The plants are very often 



Portion of plan showing Yuccas, Pampas 

 grass, Tritomas, Retinospora, Acanthus 

 latifolius, Arundo Donax variegata, etc., 

 irregularly isolated on the grass. 



