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growing, especially in some of its less common single white 

 or pale yellow and buff forms. It flowers freely, whether in 

 small pots or in large tubs, but requires protection from 

 actual frost and abundance of water in the growing season. 

 For late summer, both the Brugmansias are good and not 

 very commonplace half-hardy plants, either for a greenhouse 

 border or for large pots or tubs. In fact, B. sanguinea, with 

 long orange-mouthed tubes, treated as a herbaceous plant, 

 succeeds well out of doors up to a point, but beyond that it 

 will not go. It springs up strongly from the stool in the 

 spring, and in the course of the summer the robust branchlets 

 cover themselves with fine buds, which just begin to open 

 when frost cuts them off. Under glass they are safe, but the 

 same plan of cutting down ruthlessly to the ground-level after 

 blooming, even for pot plants, may be recommended, as it 

 keeps them in better shape. They may, however, be pre- 

 ferred as standards a form which often comes in very use- 

 fully for grouping purposes. The flowers of B. suaveolens 

 are white and trumpet-shaped, and though it is perhaps a 

 trifle more tender, it requires much the same cultural 

 treatment. 



Two little-grown plants must close the list, which might 

 be much prolonged. How seldom do we see the Pome- 

 granate (Punica granata) in English gardens, except occa- 

 sionally on a warm wall in the southern counties, yet there is 

 no shrub more worthy of planting out, if there be a fitting 

 position for it in corridor or glass-covered verandah, or for 

 growing in a tub, as we may see it so frequently abroad. The 

 dwarf variety may be seen in Germany flowering well even in 

 5-in. pots. The brilliant scarlet flowers, whether single or 

 double, are suggestive more than any others of warmth and 

 sunshine, while the shining foliage, red-tinted in the young 

 spring shoots, is always beautiful. 



The other plant of very different character is Echium 



