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set out by their great-grandmothers. This 

 plant is slow in increasing its size, but a 

 row planted twelve inches apart will in 

 time make a compact hedge with a dark 

 green, lustrous foliage, over two feet tall 

 and fully as broad. The flower spikes are 

 borne well above the foliage, some pink, 

 deeply veined a darker hue, and some white. 

 A mixture of the colors is desirable. On 

 account of the slow habit of its increase, 

 the bed will look scantily furnished for a 

 few years. This can be remedied by grow- 

 ing at each side of the row of plants any 

 spring-flowering bulb, or by carpeting in 

 summer with sweet alyssum, sowing seeds 

 in the bed. Any low-growing annual will 

 do, but it must be low-growing or it may 

 injure the Fraxinella. 



