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Virginian Stock, like many other 

 annuals, does not show its full beauty 

 from spring-sown seedlings, and where 

 it sows itself in the gravel it is often 

 welcome. Being easily raised, it is a 

 good surfacing plant in the spring or 

 early summer garden, bolder flowers 

 standing up from its sheets of bloom, 

 and in masses it is effective. S. 

 Europe. 



MALLOTUS JAPONICUS. A sum- 

 mer-leafing shrub from Japan and 

 C. China, as yet little known, but 

 thriving in high ground at Haslemere, 

 in Surrey. 



MALOPE. M. grandiflora is one of 

 the most showy of hardy annuals, and 



native Musk Mallow (M. moschata). 

 It is a branching bush, with stems 

 about 2 feet high, and many flowers 

 i to i inches in diameter. M. cam- 

 panulata is a beautiful dwarf plant, 

 but rare and not hardy except in very 

 mild districts. It is dwarf and spread- 

 ing, and bears numerous lilac bell- 

 shaped flowers. M. Alcea, Moreni 

 and mauritanica are worth growing in 

 a full collection, and so is the annual 

 M. crispa, 3 to 6 feet high an erect 

 pyramidal bush of broad leaves, with 

 a crimped margin, pretty in groups or 

 borders. 



MALVASTRUM (Rock Mallow). 

 These are in flower like Mallows, but 



Magnolia stellata. 



effective where a bold crimson flower 

 is desired. It is 18 to 24 inches high, 

 and the better the soil the finer will be 

 its bloom. There is a white variety, 

 M. g. alba. The variety M. g. rosea, 

 white flushed with rose, is pretty and 

 distinct. M. trifida is smaller in every 

 part, but showy. These bold annuals 

 are rarely used with good effect. If 

 from any cause the beds or borders get 

 worn out, it is worth while to try the 

 effect of a crop of the best annuals. 

 The Malopes, being vigorous plants, 

 are, as a rule, best in groups. S. 

 Europe. 



MALVA (Mallow}. Stout and some- 

 times showy perennial and half- 

 shrubby plants, of which there are 

 few pretty garden plants, the majority 

 being coarse and weedy. One of the 

 best is the white variety of the 



dwarfer, not quite hardy, beingjnatives 

 of the warmer parts of America. M. 

 Munroanum is a dwarf plant with 

 rather small orange-red flowers, and 

 M . lateritium, a dwarf native of Buenos 

 Ayres, has brick-red flowers. Some- 

 times in mild districts these plants 

 thrive in the rock garden or well- 

 drained borders, in light warm soil. 

 M . coccineum has flowers of a brick- 

 red and blue-grey leaves. M. gillissi, 

 crimson flowers. Dry and warm posi- 

 tions on the rock garden. 



MANDRAGORA (Mandrake). Curi- 

 ous plants of the Solanum family, suit- 

 able mainly for botanical collections. 

 They are easily grown in warm, free 

 soil, and enjoy borders at the foot of 

 south walls. 



MARGYRICARPUS (Pearl Berry). 

 Small wiry shrubs, natives of the moun- 



