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kinds are pretty, and some of tlie varieties common in gardens assume 

 a bush-like cliaracter when grown in the positions above named. With 

 tlie Stocks may be associated the single rocket (Hesperis matronalis), 

 wliicli thrives freely in shruljberies and copses. 



Bee Balm, Moncmla. — Large and very showy herbaceous plants, 

 with scarlet or purple flowers, conspicuously beautiful in Auierican and 

 Canadian woods, and capital subjects for naturalisation in woods, copses, 



etc., or anywhere among medium-sized vegeta- 

 tion, thriving best in light or well-drained 

 soils. 



Mallow, Malva, A Ithwa, MalojJe, Kitaibelia, 

 Gallirhoe, Sida. — • Plants of several distinct 

 genera may be included under this type, and 

 from each very shoAvy and useful things maj' 

 be obtained. They are for the most part sub- 

 jects which are somewhat too coarse, wlien 

 closely examined, to be planted in gardens 

 generally ; but among the taller vegetation iu 

 wild shrubberies, copses, glades iu woods, etc., 

 they will furnish a magnificent effect. Some 

 of the Malvas are very showy, vigorous-grow- 

 ing plants, mostly with rosy flowers, and would 

 associate well with our own handsome M. 

 moschata. The Althaeas, close allies of the 

 common single hollyhock, are very vigorous 

 and fine for this purpose, as are also the Sidas and Kitaibelia vitifolia. 

 The Malopes are among the best of the annual subjects for naturalisa- 

 tion. The Callirhoes are dwarf, handsome trailers, more brilliant than 

 the others, and the only ones of the type that should be planted on 

 l>are banks or amidst dwarf vegetation, as all the others are of the 

 most rampant charactei'. 



Mulgedium Plumieri — A herbaceous jJant of fine and distinct 

 port, Ijearing purplisli-l)lue Ijlossoms, rather uncommon among its kind. 

 Till recently it was generally only seen in Ijotanic gardens, but it has, 

 nevertheless, many merits as a wild garden plant, and for growing in 

 small grou]is or single specimens in <piiet gn-en corners of pleasure- 

 grounds or shrubberies. It does best in rather rich ground, and in 

 such a position will reward all wh<i plant it, being a really hardy an<l 

 long-lived perennial. Tlie foliage is sometimes over a yard long, and 

 the flower-stems attain a height of over six feet in good soil. 



