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THE WILD GARDEN. 



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The tall Ox-eye Daisy 

 (Pyrethrum serotinuni). 



its large handsome flowers will lend a charm 

 to the most uninteresting situations. 



Phlomis — Showy and stately her- 

 baceous or half-shrultliy jilants, with a pro- 

 fusion of handsome yellow or purplish 

 tlowers. Excellent for naturalisation in 

 warm open woods, copses, banks, etc., grow- 

 ing well in ordinary soil. 



Virginian Poke, rhytolacca dccan- 

 ilra. — A tall, robust perennial, within con- 

 spicuous flowers and long dense spikes of 

 purplish berries. It will grow anywhere 

 and in any soil ; but is most imposing in 

 lich deep ones. The berries are relished 

 by birds. It is fine for association with 

 the largest and stoutest herbaceous plants 

 in rough and half-wild places. 



Physostegia — Tall, erect, and beau- 

 liful herbaceous plants, mostly with deli- 

 cate rosy flowers ; natives of North 

 America, thriving in any soil. They are 

 among the most x'leasing things for plant- 

 ing in llalf-^\•ild jdaces, where they will 

 not spread rampantly, nor perish (piickly. 



Lungwort, Pubnonuiia. — Dwarf 

 ])lants of the borage family, with showy 

 blue nr pinkish Idossoms. Easily natural- 

 ised in Avoods or copses, in which position 

 the common lilue one must be familiar to 

 many in tlie woods of England and Frame. 

 The varieties are common in cottage gar- 

 dens ; tliey grow in any soil. 



The tall Ox-eye daisy, Pyrefhrum 

 serotinmn. — This fine autumn flower- 

 ing pliant, for years left in the almost ex- 

 clusive possession of the Botanic Gardens, 

 is one of the handsomest things Ave have. 

 It grows 5 or 6 feet high, and floAvers 

 late in the year, Avhen floAvers are scarce. 

 It is A'ery picturesque in habit. 



