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cellent to the amount of a dozen, at long distances, 

 amongst laurels. It must have air, that it may branch 

 out, and carry many heads on a treelike stem. More 

 of this also will be found in the list above named. 

 The most convenient thing for filling all vacuities, 

 and giving a honey sweetness to the garden, is wall- 

 flower. Late in autumn, or after the spring digging, 

 proceed all over the ground with choice plants, very 

 dark, called bloody, some double, and the whole as 

 plentiful as a crop of greens. Not individually fine, 

 this plant owes its good effect to extent, and to the 

 quantity of breeze which it perfumes. To have it 

 good of its kind may be worthy of a separate no- 

 tice. Several of the larger species of iris agree well 

 with the neighbourhood of shrubs, and thrive in the 

 shade. The lily-of-the-valley, shooting early its fine 

 dark leaf, rolled like a cigar, and shortly after its 

 modest snowy flower, may be allowed to run thickly 

 over a square yard or two, beneath a spreading laurel, 

 which may be slightly pruned for its bower. Queen- 

 of-the-meadow, double or single the latter only is 

 scented agrees with the shade; and also sweet 

 woodruff, remarkable, when dried in paper, for the 

 time it retains the odour of newmown hay. Sole- 

 dago or golden-rod, with some of the hundred varie- 

 ties of campanula or bellflower, monkshood yellow 

 or blue, columbine, and perennial larkspur growing 

 seven feet in height, may serve at distances, according 

 to their size, for foreground to the shrubbery. 



Verging towards the walk, a strip, say five feet 

 broad, running betwixt the gravel and the shrubs, 

 and perhaps an equal breadth on the other side, for 

 fibrous perennials and bulbous roots, with spaces here 



