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a peaty or sandy soil, when it soon becomes a striking and 

 interesting object. There are a few others of less im- 

 portance that the hungry collector will soon discover, but 

 they will not suit many of our readers. 



It is time now to restore the common yarrow {Achillea 

 Millefolium) to a place in the garden. It has no claim to 

 admiration in respect of beauty, although as a weed it is 

 pretty enough. But it is of great service to clothe with 

 fresh green herbage any hot, dry bank on which grass 

 becomes unsightly in the height of summer. It is, in 

 fact, a good lawn plant, bearing the scythe well, and 

 enduring drought better than any other lawn plant, save, 

 perhaps, the Dutch clover, which keeps a show of green 

 herbage when the grasses are burnt up and as dry as 

 stubble. The common camomile (Anthemis nobilis) has a 

 similar power of endurance, and might be sown with 

 yarrow and clover on dry chalky or gravelly soils where 

 it has been found difficult to establish the true grasses as 

 lawn plants. One other step may be taken to ensure a 

 smooth and fresh greensward in the event of a droughty 

 summer, and that is to set the mowing machine so that it 

 shall not shave so close as to cut into the roots of the 

 lawn plants, for many a good turf has been ruined by 

 frequent close cutting, as though mowing and destroying 

 were to be one and the same thing. 



The yarrows are bitter plants, more or less aromatic, 

 and for the most part innocuous. Having found a place 

 for Achillea millefolium in the garden, we must now 

 direct attention to the fact that it should have a place 

 in the permanent pasture, as affording to cattle a needful 

 astringent and stomachic. In some parts of Sweden it is 

 employed in the making of beer, being at once a stimulant 



