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half-shady spots in peat soil — a position among 

 Rhododendrons etc., will do well. 



Of the Thrift family, certainly the most valuable 

 plant is a deep and charming rose-coloured variety of 

 the common Thrift (Armeria vulgaris)^ Everybody 

 knows the Thrift of our sea-shores, and of the tops 

 of some of the Scotch mountains, with its pale pink 

 flowers ; but the variety I allude to is of a deep and 

 showy rose, and one of the sweetest things you can 

 employ in a spring garden as an edging plant, or in 

 clumps here and there in borders. This kind is 

 sold and known as Armeria vulgaris rubra, or A. 

 rubra. The common kind is not worth growing 

 beside it, but the white variety is. Any of the 

 British Statices that may be collected are worthy a 

 place in a collection of wild flowers. In the Goose- 

 foot and Dock order Atriplex portulacoides and 

 Polygonum Bistorta will be found the best. The 

 first is a silvery-looking shrubby herb, frequent on 

 the sea-shores ; the second a showy herb, most 

 plentiful in the north. Euphorbia Lathyris is the 

 distinct-looking and handsome Caper Spurge, which 

 is established here and there with us ; it is worthy 

 of a place, though not for the beauty of its flowers. 

 Nor must we forget the common Hop (Humulus 

 I^upulus), which I need hardly say, is very orna- 



