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is worth while to attempt such an effect, using 

 only hardy plants. Success will depend upon 

 the skill with which the materials are em- 

 ployed. I should prefer a sheltered position, 

 and I should plant such trees as staghorn 

 sumach, Ailanthus, Aralia spiiiosa, and Salts- 

 buria adiantifolia. There should be a col- 

 lection of hardy bamboos, yuccas, reeds 

 (particularly Arundo conspicua and A. donax), 

 pampas grass, and bold-foliaged plants like 

 acanthus, polygonum, rhubarb, and rod- 

 gersia. I would introduce kniphofia for its 

 colour value. Of smaller plants I should 

 select those which afford a suggestion of exotic 

 form — funkia, Bocconia cordata, crown im- 

 perial, Solomon's seal, coltsfoot, verbascum, 

 ferns, and many others which I need not 

 enumerate. 



The beauty of a pseudo-tropical garden 

 made on these lines would consist in the variety 

 and special character of the foliage, and 

 everything being hardy, it would not involve 

 a tithe of the trouble and expense of a sub- 

 tropical garden. 



The graceful habit and beauty of flower of our 

 hardy climbers make them valuable material 



