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its large handsome flowerswill lend a charm 
to the most uninteresting situations. 
Phlomis.—Showy and stately her- 
baceous or half-shrubby plants, with a pro- 
fusion of handsome yellow or purplish 
flowers. Excellent for naturalisation in 
wari open woods, copses, banks, etc., grow- 
ing well in ordinary soil. 
Virginian Poke, Phytolaccu decan- 
dra.—A tall, robust perennial, within con- 
spicuous flowers and long dense spikes of 
purplish berries. It will grow anywhere 
and in any soil ; but is most imposing in 
rich deep ones. The berries are relished 
by birds. It is fine for association with 
the largest and stoutest herbaceous plants 
in rough and half-wild places. 
Physostegia.—Tall, erect, and beau- 
tiful herbaceous plants, mostly with deli- 
cate rosy flowers; natives of North 
America, thriving in any soil. They are 
among the most pleasing things for plant- 
ing in half-wild places, where they will 
not spread rampantly, nor perish quickly. 
Lungwort, Pulnionaria. — Dwarf 
plants of the borage family, with showy 
blue or pinkish blossoms. Easily natural- 
ised in woods or copses, in which position 
the common blue one must be familiar to 
many in the woods of England and France. 
The varieties are common in cottage gar- 
dens ; they grow in any soil. 
The tall Ox-eye daisy, Pyrethrum 
serotinum.—This fine autumn _flower- 
ing plant, for years left in the almost ex- 
elusive possession of the Botanic Gardens, 
is one of the handsomest things we have. 
It grows 5 or 6 feet high, and flowers 
late in the year, when flowers are scarce. 
The tall Ox-eye Daisy x" : “ a 
(Pyrethrum serotinum). It is very picturesque in habit. 
