164 TOWN PLANTING 



experience been found suitable for town gar- 

 dening special mention must be made of the 

 Marigold, Rocket, dwarf Pyrethrum, Balsam, 

 and Lychnis. These four plants not only thrive, 

 but actually seem to revel under the worst 

 conditions of soil and atmosphere. 



Thus, in the gardens attached to the Tower 

 of London one of the smokiest and most 

 chemically impure of London atmospheres 

 these plants have for many years repro- 

 duced themselves from seed and flowered 

 profusely. 



For wild gardening in towns they have 

 certainly few equals, and. any plant that will 

 thrive and reproduce its kind regularly for a 

 number of years under such unfavourable 

 surroundings is well worthy of attention. As 

 dwarf edging plants for the town garden, the 

 various forms of Lobelia, Alyssum maritimum, 

 Iresine Lindeni, and 7. Wallacei are to be 

 preferred. 



As before stated, almost any plant, if suf- 

 ficiently hardy, will do well when transferred 

 from the greenhouse to the open borders 



