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aromaticum and ageratoides, being very beautiful and distinct, and well 
worthy of a place in the best parts of the wild garden. 
Sea Holly, Eryngium.—vVery distinct and noble-looking per- 
ennials, with ornamental and usually spiny leaves, and flowers in 
heads, sometimes surrounded by a bluish involucrum, and supported 
on stems of a fine amethystine blue. They would be very attractive 
on margins of shrubberies and near wood-walks, thrive in ordinary . 
free soil, and will take care of themselves among tall grasses and all 
but the most vigorous herbs. 
Heath, Erica, Menziesia.—Our own heathy places are pretty rich 
in this type, but the brilliant Erica carnea is so distinct and attractive 
that it well deserves naturalisation among 
them. The beautiful St. Daboec’s heath 
(Menziesia polifolia) deserves a trial in 
the same way, as, though found in the 
west of Ireland, it is to the majority of 
English gardens an exotic plant. It will 
grow almost anywhere in peaty soil. 
Barren-wort, Epimedium.—Inter- 
esting and very distinct, but compara- 
tively little known perennials, with pretty 
and usually delicately tinted flowers, and 
singular and ornamental foliage. They 
are most suitable for peaty or free moist 
soils, in sheltered positions, among low 
A Sea Waly: Beyagiimn shrubs on rocky banks, ete., and near the 
eye. The variety called E. pinnatum 
elegans, when in deep peat soil, forms. tufts of leaves nearly a yard 
high, and in spring is adorned with long racemes of pleasing yellow 
flowers, so that it is well worthy of naturalisation where the soil is 
suitable. 
Globe Thistle, Echinops—Large and distinct perennials of fine 
port, from 3 feet to 6 feet high, with spiny leaves and numerous 
flowers in spherical heads. These will thrive well in almost any 
position, and hold their ground amid the coarsest vegetation. Being 
of a “type” quite distinct from that of our indigenous vegetation, they 
are more than usually suited for naturalisation. Echinops exaltatus 
and E, ruthenicus, are among the best kinds, the last the best in colour. 
May-flower, Epigea repens—A small creeping shrub, with pretty 
and deliciously fragrant flowers, which appear soon after the melting 
