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effect under the trees in summer. With few exceptions these 

 plants have never been grown out of botanic gardens, many 

 of them being thought too coarse for the mixed border. 

 They are, nevertheless, remarkably beautiful both in flower 

 and foliage, and many effects never before seen in gardens 

 may be obtained by massing them under trees in open 

 shrubberies or copses, as a rule allowing one species to 

 establish itself in each place and assume an easy and broken 

 boundary. 



Allium. — Plants scattered in abundance throughout the 







THE WHITE NABCISSUS-LIKB ALLIUM, in the orchards of Provence; 

 type of family receiving litfle place in g2irdens which may be beautiful 

 for a season in wild places. 



northern temperate and alpine regions of Europe and Asia, 

 and also America. Some are so beautiful as to claim a place 

 in gardens notwithstanding their disagreeable odour. It is 

 only in the wild garden, however, that this family finds 

 a fitting home. One of the prettiest effects to produce in the 

 wild garden would be that of the beautiful white Narcissus- 

 like Allium of the south of Europe (A. neapolitanum). The 

 sheets of this in the Lemon orchards of Provence will be 



