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polyphyUus, in its various colours of lilac, blue, 

 white, is beautiful in a mass, the tall spikes reach- 

 ing up to five or six feet high ; or small groups 

 at intervals down a long border, coming in with 

 the middle-time Iris and the Oriental Poppies, 

 make a grand display of colour. Care must be taken 

 to stake these plants in good time, for they grow very 

 quickly, and the effect is quite spoilt if their spikes 

 do not go straight up. 



The Tree Lupins (Lupinus arboreus} are also 

 very beautiful plants ; the yellow variety I have 

 seen in bushes seven feet high, and wide in propor- 

 tion ; the white one, " Snow Queen," does not grow 

 quite so high, but spreads itself in width with great 

 rapidity. It looks best where it can be allowed to 

 grow as it likes, and not tied up, for it then forms 

 dense bushes of elegant light-green foliage, which, 

 however, are smothered in pure white blooms for 

 quite six or eight weeks in the spring. It is very 

 sweet scented, and excellent for cutting, altogether 

 a charming plant. It is sometimes cut by severe 

 frost, but grows again very quickly. All Lupins 

 can be raised very easily and quickly from seed ; 

 they like a light soil, and plenty of sun. 



Lychnis. Good groups of Lychnis are most 



