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in habit, is a most desirable border or rock plant. 

 The flowering stems should be pinched out, as it is 

 for the much-dissected leaves only that the plant is 

 worthy of cultivation. In the whole of the umbelli- 

 ferous order there is hardly another plant worthy 

 of cultivation, if we except the Sea-holly (Eryn- 

 gium maritimum), a striking subject, and the Sweet 

 Cicely (Myrrhis odorata) an interesting old plant, 

 often cultivated in old times and gardens for various 

 uses ; not a rare plant, but most plentiful in the 

 hilly parts of the north of England. The rest of 

 the order are best admired in their wild haunts, like 

 a great many other British plants. 



The Linnaea borealis is one of the prettiest and 

 most distinct things among our native plants, and, 

 moreover, highly attractive to all who know anything 

 about botany, in consequence of its being named 

 after the great master of natural science, Linnaeus 

 himself, who was very fond of this plant, which 

 trails about so prettily in fir woods in the North. 

 It is found, though rarely, in Scotland ; but being 

 a favourite plant with many, may be purchased in 

 many nurseries. The only question is, how to keep 

 a plant so interesting and pretty .' To place it in. 

 the ordinary earth of our dry southern gardens 

 would be a ready way of extinguishing it ; but by 

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