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flowering annually. Their effect, even 

 in winter, on a knoll is good, and 

 there is nothing one could plant on a 

 dry poor bank that would be likely to 

 do or look as well. A little fringe of 

 some small-leaved Ivy surrounding 

 them looks well. 



ZAUSCHNERIA CALIFORNIA 



(Californian Fuchsia). A distinct and 

 bright perennial, hardy in warm soils, 



ZENOBIA Z. speciosa is one of 

 the most beautiful of rock shrubs of 

 the Heath family, about a yard high, 

 with small pale green leaves. In the 

 variety pulverulenta, the leaves are 

 covered with a mealy glaucescence. 

 The flowers are white and wax-like, re- 

 sembling those of Lily of the Valley, 

 in summer, in loose drooping clusters. 

 A well-flowered plant is most charming, 

 and lasts for some weeks in beauty, 



A group of Yuccas. (Engraved from a photograph by Mrs Henderson, 

 Sedgwick Park, Horsham.) 



12 to 18 inches high, 'with an 

 abundance of bright vermilion flowers 

 during summer and autumn. It 

 thrives in sandy loam in the rock- 

 garden, and grows well on an old wall, 

 but on heavy and moist soils does not 

 thrive. Where any difficulty is found 

 in cultivating it, it will certainly 

 succeed in a "dry" wall. 



doing best in a peaty soil or a sandy 

 loam. It comes from the Southern 

 United States, but is hardy in the 

 southern countries. In Nurseries it is 

 known as Andromeda speciosa, and 

 A. pulverulenta. 



ZEPHYRANTHES (Zephyr Flower). 

 Pretty bulbous plants requiring a 



