162 TOWN PLANTING 



where the air is fairly pure they succeed and 

 are highly ornamental. 



ABUTILON THOMPSONII is a valuable 

 foliage plant for the town garden, where it 

 succeeds well even in very confined quarters. 

 DRAC^NA CONGESTA and some of the Agaves 

 are amongst the most useful of foliage 

 plants for the town garden, and they are able 

 to resist a great amount of smoke, dust, and 

 heat. The common white, perpetual-flowering 

 Marguerite (Chrysanthemum) is one of the 

 most valuable town plants we possess, and is 

 cultivated in several of our town squares and 

 confined spaces where few other plants could 

 succeed ; of splendid constitution and free- 

 flowering, it is always a welcome plant wherever 

 it is used, and blooms continuously for nearly 

 four months of the year. There are worthless 

 forms that produce only one set of flowers, but 

 with the perpetual-flowering a continuation of 

 blooming for the whole season may be relied 

 upon. Triumph and Queen Alexandra are 

 two of the best. 



A bed of succulent plants has attractions 



