Hardy Exotic Flowering Plants 187 



6 feet high, and flowers late in 

 autumn. It is picturesque in 

 habit. 



Bramble, Rubus. — Although we 

 have nearly fifty kinds of bramble 

 native in Britain, some of the exotic 

 species, entirely distinct from our 

 own, are well worthy of naturali- 

 zation among low shrubs and tall 

 herbaceous plants; for shady 

 woods there is the large white 

 Rubus Nutkanus, and the deep 

 rose-coloured Rubus odoratus, and 

 the early spring-flowering R. 

 spectabilis ; while the very strik- 

 ing white-stemmed R. biflorus is 

 a good plant for warm slopes, 

 sunny sides of chalk and gravel 

 pits. 



The Great Reed, Arundo 

 Donax.—T\v\s, noble reed I do 

 not like to omit here, it is so 

 beautiful in the southern counties 

 of England, though in cold soils 

 and hard winters it may perish. 

 Where the hardier Bamboos find 

 a place this will be welcome, 

 though in our country it is only in 

 the warmer parts that it attains 

 the dignity it shows in the south 

 of Europe. 



Rhubarb, Rheum. — There are 



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TEE GREAT REED of Southern Europe 

 (Arundo Donax). 



