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FA'MILIAR GARDEN' FLOWERS. 



pyracanthas, and escallonias, all of whicli are easily managed 

 as pot plants, and by some of the more spirited amateurs 

 are grown in quantity to group with specimen chrysan- 

 themums in November and December. lu the northern 

 suburbs of Loudon the laurestinus scarcely prospers in the 

 opien ground ; but in the western suliurbsj and particularly 

 along the valley of the Thames, it grows an<I flowers 

 almost as freely as at Bournemouth. It is not many years 

 since we saw by some houses at Strand-on-the-Green, 

 near Kew, laurestinuses rising above the level of the 

 roof. 



The viburnums are partial to a strong soil, and tlie 

 common snowball tree will thrive iu places that are too 

 damp for many of the better kinds of flowering trees. 



