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and the Paulownia ; but I have had no experience of it 

 in this way, and its natural habit is sufficiently graceful. 



Stadmannia Jonghei. — A tall and stately foliage- 

 plant from Australia, where it attains the dimensions of a 

 small tree, with dark shining green pinnate leaves ; the 

 divisions oblong-pointed, with serrated margins, and 

 of a paler colour underneath. Bears the open air of the 

 southern counties in summer well, if placed in sunny and 

 sheltered spots. 



*Statice latifolia. — A hardy and very ornamental 

 herbaceous perennial from Russia, with broad leaves, 

 which form a rosette or tuft more or less spreading. 

 The flower-stem is more than 2 ft. high, and very 

 much branched ; the branches commencing at from 

 4 ins. to 8 ins. above the ground, and forming a large 

 and exceedingly handsome panicle of flowers of a light- 

 blue colour, tinged with the greyish hue of the numerous 

 membranous bracts and thin dry calyces. A well-drained, 

 sandy soil, in an open sunny position, is the best for this 

 plant, which, however, grows in any ordinary garden-soil, 

 and is admirably adapted for naturalisation or grouping 

 with the acanthuses, tritomas, etc., the effect of the inflor- 

 escence being very remarkable. 



*Stipa pennata {Feather-grass). — This plant, which 

 at other times is hardly to be distinguished from a strong, 

 stiff tuft of common grass, presents, in May and June, a 

 very different appearance, the tuft being then surmounted 

 by numerous flower-stems, nearly 2 ft. high, gracefully 

 arching, and densely covered, for a considerable part of 

 their upper extremity, with long, twisted, feathery awns. 

 It loves a. deep, sandy loam, and may be used with fair 



