Chap. II.] 



THE PAEO MONOEAU. 



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tender plants have done much towards correcting a false taste. 

 In whatever part of these islands one may live, one need not 

 despair of producing sufficient similar effect to vary the flower- 



BEAUTY OF FORM FROM HARDY PLANTS. 

 All the plants sJwain are, with two exceptions, hardy. {Drawn by Alfred Dawson.) 



garden or pleasure-ground beautifully by the use of hardy plants 

 alone. The nohle lines of a well-grown Yucca recurva, or the 

 finely chiselled yet fern-like spray of a graceful young conifer, 



