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finally making good lawn plants. Among the most 

 interesting is a species of trailing Hypericum, 

 specific name unknown, from the mountains of 

 eastern Chile. As my lawn is an experimental one, 

 this has now supplanted the lippias there, and as 

 the new plant does not at any time turn brown in 

 the winter, like the lippias, it may prove superior 

 in beauty, though not quite as rapid in covering a 

 lawn surface. 



Somewhat similar species of hypericum have 

 lately been introduced in my gardens from Russian 

 Siberia, and central and northern Europe, which 

 show a similar creeping habit, and no doubt will 

 be hardy everywhere. These, even in the first 

 generation from the wild native parent, show a 

 wonderful variation in rapidity and compactness 

 of growth, and from all appearance a few years' 

 work will give us a lawn plant for all climates far 

 superior to anything hitherto known, but probably 

 a little more difficult to get started. 



All the hypericums will stand a great amount of 

 drought and ill treatment; they are unusually 

 hardy, stand tramping and mowing readily. No 

 doubt in future there will be produced varieties 

 that will be exceedingly valuable as lawn plants 

 for all climates. 



Until the new plants have been perfected, how- 

 ever, the conventional lawn grass, with blue-grass 



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