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thatched roofs, etc., on the Continent, flowering profusely. These facts 
tend to show how many different positions may be adorned by the irises. 
Common Lupine, Lupinus polyphyllus.—Amidst the tallest and 
handsomest herbaceous plants, group- 
ed where they may be seen from grass 
drives or wood walks, or in any 
position or soil. Excellent for islets 
or river banks, in which, or in 
copses, it spreads freely. There are 
several varieties, all worthy of culture. 
Honesty, Lunaria. — This, 
which approaches the Stocks in the 
aspect of its fine purplish violet 
flowers, is quite removed from them 
by the appearance of its curious 
seed-vessels. It is one of the most 
valuable of all plants for naturalisa- 
tion, and may be said to form a 
type by itself. It shows itself freely 
in dryish ground or on chalk banks, 
and is one of the prettiest objects 
to be met with in early summer 
in wood or wild. 
Lily, Lilium.—There are many 
hardy lilies that may be naturalised. 
The situations that these grow in, 
from the high meadows of Northern 
Italy, dotted with the orange lily, 
to the woody gorges of the Sierras 
in California, rich with tall and 
fragrant kinds, are such as make 
their culture in copses, woods, rough 
grassy places, etc. a certainty. In 
woods where there is a rich deposit 
of vegetable matter the great 
American Lilium superbum, and 
no doubt some of the recently- 
discovered Californian lilies, will do well. The European lilies, 
dotted in the grass in the rough unmown glades, would not grow 
nearly so large as they do in the rich borders of our cottage gardens ; 
