SELECTIONS OF HARDY EXOTIC PLANTS. 
Omphalodes verna. 
Verbascum Chaixii. 
Dodecatheon Jeffreyi. 
<3 Meadia. 
Cyclamen europeun. 
Cyclamen hederefolium. 
Primula, in var. 
Tris amena. 
» cristata. 
» De Bergii. 
» flavescens. 
» florentina. 
» germanica, 
» graminea. 
» ochroleuca. 
» pallida. 
» sambucina. 
» sub-biflora. 
Tris variegata, and many 
other kinds, 
Crocus aureus. 
»»  Speciosus. 
»» versicolor. 
»  susianus,andmany 
others. 
Narcissus angustifolius. 
5 Bulbocodium. 
on bicolor, 
- incomparabilis, 
ay major. 
8 montanus. 
i odorus. 
5 poeticus & vars. 
Galanthus, in var. 
‘Leucojum pulchellum. 
55 vernum. 
Paradisia Liliastrum. 
167 
Ornithogalum umbellatum. 
Scilla amcena. 
»  bifolia 
»  campanulata. 
»  patula. 
 ~italica,... 
sibirica, 
” 
Hyacinthus amethystinus. 
Muscari botryoides. 
3 moschatum, and 
various others. 
Allium neapolitanuin. 
*,,  eiliatum, 
Tulipa Gesneriana. 
>, suaveolens. 
>,  scabriscapa and 
many others. 
Fritillaria, in var. 
Bulbocodium vernum. 
Plants for Naturalisation beneath specimen Trees on Lawns, ete. 
Where, as is frequently the case, the branches of trees, both 
evergreen and deciduous, sweep the turf—and this, as a rule, they 
should be allowed to do where they are planted in ormmamental 
grounds—a great number of pretty spring flowers may be naturalised 
beneath the branches, where they thrive without attention. It is 
chiefly in the case of deciduous trees that this could be done ; but 
even in the case of conifers and evergreens some graceful objects might 
be dotted beneath the outermost points of their lower branches. How- 
ever, it is the specimen deciduous tree that offers us the best opportuni- 
ties in this way. We know that a great number of our spring flowers 
and hardy bulbs mature their foliage and go to rest early in the year. 
They require light and sun in spring, which they obtain abundantly 
under the deciduous tree ; they have time to flower and develop their 
leaves under it before the foliage of the tree appears ; then, as the 
summer heats approach, they are gradually overshadowed by a cool 
canopy, and go to rest undisturbed ; but, the leaves of the trees once 
fallen, they soon begin to appear again and cover the ground with 
beauty. 
An example or two will perhaps explain the matter more fully. 
Take the case of, say, a spreading old specimen of any summer-leafing 
tree, Scatter a few tufts of the winter Aconite beneath it, and leave 
them alone. In a very few years they will have covered the ground ; 
every year afterwards they will spread a golden carpet beneath the 
tree ; and when it fades there will be no eyesore from decaying leaves 
