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in our gardens; they will be found to thrive well and look well in 
peat soil beneath rhododendrons, and towards the margins of clumps 
of American shrubs. 
Leopard’s Bane, Doronicwm—Stout, medium-sized, or dwarf 
perennials, with hardy and vigorous constitutions, and very showy 
flowers ; well suited for naturalisation among herbaceous vegetation, in 
any position where the beauty of their early bloom can be enjoyed. 
American Cowslip, Dodecatheon—All who care for hardy 
flowers admire the beautiful American cowslip (D. Meadia), found in rich 
woods in Pennsylvania, Ohio, to Wisconsin and south-westward, in 
America. This would be a charming plant to naturalise on rich and 
light sandy loams, among dwarf herbs, low shrubs, etc., in sheltered 
and sunny spots. Jeffrey’s American cowslip (D. Jeffreyanum), a 
vigorous-growing kind, is also well worth a trial in this way, though 
as yet it is hardly plentiful enough to be spared for this purpose. 
Fumitory, Fumaria, Dielytra—Plants with graceful leaves and 
gay flowers suited for association with dwarf subjects on open banks, 
except D. spectabilis, which in deep peat or other rich soil will grow a 
yard high. The simple-looking little Fumaria bulbosa is one of the 
dwarf subjects which thrive very well under the branches of specimen 
deciduous trees, and Corydalis lutea thrives in every position from the 
top of an old castle to the bottom of a well shaft. I saw Dielytra eximia 
naturalised in Buckhurst Park, in a shrubbery, the position shady. Its 
effect was most charming, the plumy tufts being dotted all over with 
flowers. Had I before wished to naturalise this, I should have put it 
on open slopes, or among dwarf plants, but it thrives and spreads 
about with the greatest freedom in shady spots. The blossoms, instead 
of being of the usual crimson hue, were of a peculiar delicate pale rose, 
no doubt owing to the shade ; and, as they gracefully drooped over the 
clegantly-cut leaves, they looked like snowdrops of a faint rosy hue. 
Delphinium, Perennial species—Tall and beautiful herbaceous 
plants, with flowers of many exquisite shades of blue and purple. 
There are now numerous varieties. They are well suited for rich soil 
in glades, copses, thin shrubberies, or among masses of dwarf shrubs, 
above which their fine spikes of bloom might here and there arise. 
One of the prettiest effects which I have ever seen among natu- 
ralised plants was a colony of tall Larkspurs (Delphiniums). Portions 
of old roots of several species and varieties had been chopped off 
where a bed of these plants was being dug in the autumn, For 
convenience sake the refuse had been thrown into the neighbouring 
