Hardy Exotic Flowering Plants i8i 



naturalization in woods and shrubberies, copses, or anywhere 

 among medium-sized vegetation. They thrive best in light 

 or well-drained soils. Few plants have given me more 

 pleasure than wide groups of the scarlet Bee Balm, which 

 are splendidly effective, and form pictures from various 

 points of view in the same place. Even in the broiling 

 summer of 1893 we enjoyed their beauty for many weeks. 



Mallow, Malva,Alihcea, Malope, Kitaibelia, Callirhoe, Sida. — 

 Plants of several distinct genera may be included under this 

 type, and from each very showy plants. 

 They are for the most part too coarse 

 for gardens generally; but among the 

 taller vegetation in rough shrubberies, 

 and glades in woods, they give good 

 eifect. Some of the Malvas are vigorous- 

 growing plants, mostly with rosy 

 flowers. The Althaeas, close allies of 

 the common single hollyhock, are fine, 

 as are also the Sida and Kitaibelia 

 vitifolia. The Malopes are among the 

 best of the annual flowers. The 

 Callirhoes are dwarf, handsome 

 trailers, brilliant too, and are the only 

 ones of the type that should be planted amidst dwarf 

 vegetation, as all the others are of vigorous character. 



Mulgedium Plumieri. — A plant of distinct port, with 

 purplish-blue blossoms. Till recently it was generally seen 

 in botanic gardens only, but it has many merits as a wild 

 garden plant, and for groups in quiet green corners of 

 pleasure grounds or shrubberies. It does best in rather 

 rich ground, and in such will pay all who plant it, being 

 a hardy and long-lived perennial. The foliage is sometimes 



THE BEE BALM, Monarda. 

 American ^ood plant. 



