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Hardy Plants for 



for making bold groups. With some of the things before named, 

 and with other perfectly hardy plants, there should be no difficulty 

 in producing as bold and striking groups of vegetation as any ever 

 seen either with us or in Paris, and afforded by costly and tende 

 exotics requiring winter protection. 



Melianthus major. — This is usually treated as a greenhouse 

 plant, and is sometimes put out of doors in summer. So treated, 

 however, the full beauty of the plant has not time to develope ; and 



Fig. i6. — Melianthus major. 



much the better way is to treat it as a hardy subject, putting it out 

 in some sunny and sheltered spot, where the roots will not suffer 

 from wet in winter. The shoots will be cut down with frost, 

 but the root will live and push up strong ones in spring, forming 

 by midsummer a bush of very distinct and beautiful leaves. 



