VARIETY IN THE FLOWER GARDEN 



enough in a closed case in a warm greenhouse. The 

 best white Abutilon is appropriately enough called Boule 

 de Neige, while Golden Fleece, Sanglant, and Anna 

 Crozy are a good yellow, red and rosy purple respectively. 

 Acacia or, if you choose, Albizzia lophantha, since this 

 plant acknowledges either name is a charming kind for 

 the flower garden, despite the fact that it relies for its 

 powers of fascination on leaves alone. These are very 

 beautiful, with elegant little leaflets, or, to please such 

 readers as are of a botanical turn of mind, and may, 

 therefore, be presumed to be read in their terms, let me 

 give them their proper designation and call them bipin- 

 nate. In growing this Acacia from seed, it is astonishing 

 to mark its rapid progress in the greenhouse. 



In Eulalia japonica we have a fine ornamental plant, 

 hardy in the south of England ; it may, however, be 

 grown in flower pots, to be planted out of doors during 

 the summer months in less favourable localities. Two 

 attractive varieties are in cultivation foliis striatis, 

 having a cream coloured line down the centre of each 

 leaf, and zebrina, in which the leaves are covered with 

 green markings. The Garland Flower (Hedychium gard- 

 nerianum) to those who are acquainted with it, is pro- 

 bably more familiar as a greenhouse than as an outdoor 

 plant. It may, however, be used with advantage out 

 of doors, especially if it can have a flower bed all to itself. 

 The sweetly scented flowers are borne in large spikes, 

 and are remarkably handsome. In autumn the roots 



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