42 FLOWERS AND THE FLOWER GARDEN. 



The Holy Thistle is beautiful in its white and pale 

 green foliage, but if it is introduced care must be taken 

 that it does not become a weed in the garden. 



To enter into the cultivation of many of the handsome 

 foliaged trees, shrubs, and plants that may be used to 

 vary most beautifully the general appearance and colour- 

 ing of the flower garden, would take too much space, 

 but I may just cursorily name a few of each which are 

 well worth attention. Among trees we have the varie- 

 gated maple, striped-leaved horse-chestnut ; variegated 

 leaved chestnut ; several oaks with variegated foliage ; 

 the golden-twigged lime ; the copper beech, and others. 

 As shrubs there are the never- failing aucuba, that host 

 in itself; the variegated syringa (Pliiladelplius coronarius 

 foliis variegatis) ; the golden-edged leaved buckthorn ; 

 the variegated rhododendron (Rhododendron ponticum 

 variegatum) ; the variegated yews ; and the variegated 

 arbor vitse. As plants we have the variegated peri- 

 winkle ; the variegated germander ; the variegated se- 

 dum; the variegated blue Jacob's ladder; the ^Enotliera 

 glauca variegata ; the variegated balm and mint ; the 

 variegated toad-flax (a pretty ground creeper) ; the 

 variegated white lily ; the variegated Grerman iris ; the 

 variegated hairy willow herb ; the variegated daisy ; 

 the greater variegated astrantia; the variegated shiny 

 Arabis, and the variegated blue agathsea. 



There are also ribbon grass, Belgian daisies, variegated 

 Arabis, Centaur ea dealbata, Centaur ea cruenta, the tri- 

 coloured salvia, and various bedding plants with deep 

 crimson and glaucous leaves. There is. in fact, so much 

 variety in foliage, natural or obtained by cultivation, 

 that by its judicious utilization we may permanently aid 

 the varying beauty of floral arrangement. 



I have endeavoured to confine my list in this chapter 

 entirely to hardy handsome foliaged trees, shrubs, and 

 plants, deferring to another those splendid plants 

 which require the aid of the greenhouse, but some of 

 which I hope to see more hardily domesticated among 

 us at a future time. 



There are some herbaceous plants of gigantic growth 



