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the Dahlias, whilst the flowers of the latter, resting 

 on the Ferula, present somewhat the appearance 

 they do when cut and arranged in vases with Eem- 

 fronds. A bed of tall and standard Fuchsias, inter- 

 mixed with dwarf plants of Grevillea robusta, or with 

 seedling Acacia lophantkay is also another very tell- 

 ing arrangement to place between surrounding beds 

 of foliage plants. The flowery panicles of Stcmea 

 elegans look appropriate in almost any position, or in 

 association with all varieties of sub-tropicals ; and the 

 plant is one of the best, if not the very best, of all 

 the kinds for isolation on the turf. 



The hardy herbaceous Bocconia cordata, which in 

 good soil attains a height of eight feet, and flowers 

 profusely, also does grandly in association with the 

 more massive sub-tropicals, such as Cannas and 

 Wigandias, but should always be used as a central 

 plant. It also makes a fine permanent lawn plant ; 

 a large group of it, either on the open lawn amongst 

 the beds, or in a nook of the lawn, ha^ving a dark 

 background of shrubs, has a most charming effect. 



List of Plants. — Further particulars as to ar- 

 rangement are unnecessary, but the following list of 

 plants will show how gi-eatly at the will of the 

 operator they may be varied : — 



Hardy Kinds. 



Acautlius latifolius. 



A. spiuosissimus. 



Aralia canescens. 



Arundinftria falcata. 



A. japonica. 



Arundo conspicua. 



A. donax. 



Ailautus gladulosa. 



Bambusa Fortuniivariegata 



BoccoQia cordata. 



Orambe cordifolia. 



C. juncea. 



ChamEerops humilis. 



C. Fortunii, 



Fatsia japoiiica. 



Fuukla Sieboldii. 



Funkia Sieboldii variegata. 



F . ovata aiirea. 



Ferula gigautea. 



F. communis. 



Gynerium argeuteum. 



Meliautbus majitr. 



Fhoriuiuiu tenax. 



P. tenax variegata. 



P. sanguinea. 



Rhus Cotipus. 



R. glabra laciniata. 



Sambucus nigra aurea. 



Tamiaris: germauica. 



Tussilago Farf ara variegata. 



Yucca nlameutosa. 



T. recurva. 



Kinds Easily Raised fkom Seeds. 



Albizzia lophantba. 

 Amarantbus melancholicus 



ruber. 

 A. Cauda tus. 

 Bel^ cbilensis. 

 Cannas. 



Cannabis gigantea. 

 Cbamsepeuce Casabonee. 

 C. diacantha. 

 Kucalyptus globulus. 

 Ferdinandia eminens. 

 Grevillea robusta. 



Humea elegans. 

 Nicotiana macrophylla gi- 

 gantea. 

 N. wigandioides variegata. 

 Perilla naukinensis. 

 Kicinus (all the varieties) . 

 Salvia argentea. 

 Solanum (all the varieties). 

 Wigandia caracasana. 

 W. Vigieri. 

 Zea japonica variegata. 



Kinds Suitable for ITndeegrowths to Larger 

 Plants. 



AbutHon vexillarium varie- 



gatum. 

 Centaurea candldissima. 

 Cineraria maritima. 

 Cerastium arvense. 

 C. tomentosum. 

 Dactylis glomerata \ arie- 



gata. 



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Euonymus radicans varie- 

 gata. 



Pyrethrum,GoldenFeatlier. 



Gnaphalium lanatum. 



Hemiaria glabra. 



And all the mossy sections 

 of Saxifragas and Sedume, 



This is a long list, and necessarily so, as it is in- 

 tended to embrace plants in sufficient variety for the 

 largest garden. Those having hut a small space to 

 furnish, and restricted in their conveniences for 

 raising the plants, should confine themselves to the 

 hardy kinds, and such of the annual seedling kinds 

 as can he raised in a frame or small green-houae. 

 Hemp, Castor-oils, Chilian Beet, variegated Maize, 

 and PerUla are amongst those most readily raised. 

 Particulars as to raising and propagating these and 

 other bedding plants have already heen given. 



General Culture. — The principal requirement 

 under this head consists in .keeping the plants in a 

 growing state by copious supplies of water and 

 mulchings of manure, fine soil, or cocoa-fibre (this 

 last is the neatest), till the plants have fiUed out the 

 bed, when, as it were, they form their own mulch- 

 ings. The ground-work plants and edgings should 

 be gone over about once each week, for the purpose 

 of pinching out the points of straggling shoots and 

 pegging them down, and the tail plants should be 

 tied to stakes, care being needed that the ties are 

 not made so tightly that the plants get crippled. 

 Many of the plants swell out their stems so rapidly 

 that tying demands particular attention. Generally 

 it is best to let all taU plants grow after their own 

 natural habit, but sometimes a strong shoot or lead 

 win grow out of aU proportion with the others ; in 

 such a case the points should be pinched out, with a 

 view of obtaining greater uniformity of growth ; for 

 though a formal appearance is undesirable, there 

 should be no perceptible want of balance of growth 

 in the same bed. 



It is not generally known that all the rapid- 

 growing annual sub-tropicals are amenable to stop- 

 ping or pinching, particularly of the side growths, 

 so that, if need be, this operation may be performed 

 on them. One of the most beautiful arrangements 

 we have ever seen was so treated ; the plants were 

 Sioinus Giisonii, which were so repeatedly stopped 

 back that they developed quite a bushy, not to 

 say flat habit of growth. The rich bronze-browir 

 of this Ricimis was set off to perfection by having 

 for a cushion the creamy-yellow Abutilon vexillarium 

 variegata. 



SUBTJEBAN GARDENING. 



By James Hudson. 



THE SUPPLT AND aENERAL MANAGEMENT 



OF SMALL GARDENS. 



Propagation. — The hints given with respect to 



the propagation of the Aucuba may be followed in 



the case of other plants and shrubs that do not readily 



