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tender plants have clone much towards correcting a false taste. 

 In whatever part of these islands one may live, one need not 

 despair of producing sufficient similar effect to vary the flower- 



ROM HARDY PLANTS. 

 All tlu- plants sIutmh arc, ivith two exceptions, luxrJy. [Drnum by Alfred Dawson.) 



garden or pleasure-ground beautifully by the use of hardy plants 

 alone. The noble lines of a well-grown Yucca recurva, or the 

 finely chiselled yot fcrn-liko s})ray of a graceful young conifer, 



