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PRACTICAL FLORICULTURE. 



plants were made to produce such wonderful effects when 

 grouped and contrasted in the subtropical arrangement. 

 The plants were mainly Cannas, Japanese Maize (striped), 

 Wigandias, Bocconias, Solauums and many of the tall- 

 growing sorts of Amaranths. These were grouped on 

 beds of every conceivable form, some clearly denned in 



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Fig. 10. A CARPET BED. 



1. Echeveria Secunda. 4. Echeveria Extensa. 



2. Sempervivum Californicum. ft. Yellow Alternanthera. 



3. Echeveria Rosea. 6. Yellow Alternanthera. 



7. Crimson Alternanthera. 



the broad lawn, some skirting the edge of a clump of 

 trees, others planted in and among the trees and shrub- 

 bery as undergrowth, giving the impression, when look- 

 ing at it under the roofy shade of trees, that you were 

 viewing an undergrowth of the tropics rather than a piece 



