PAET lY. 



HERBACEOUS PLANTS ADAPTED FOR GROWTH 

 EST RHODODENDRON-BEDS. 



*" I ""HERB are many herbaceous plants, seldom 

 -*■ found in good health in the garden, which 

 thrive wonderfully if grown in Rliododendron-beds. 

 Many of these are rare native plants, usually con- 

 sidered of difficult cultivation ; but their only fault 

 is refusing to grow und.er conditions in no way suited 

 to their nature. To domesticate these choice wild- 

 lings, and to have thena bloom under your own care 

 in greater perfection than in their native haunts, 

 is a triumph of floriculture which few aclaieve. Yet 

 such success is not difficult, and a httle study of 

 the requirements of each plant will enable one to 

 attain it. 



Plants that naturally grow in the rich humus of 

 old woods, rooting in the deep leaf-mould, or that 

 find congenial soil in shady swamps, will not thrive 

 transplanted to common garden soil and exposed 

 in full sunshine. 



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