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i dozen really distinct and charming kinds might be selected to 

 form a group. The same applies to the Tritomas, which we 

 usually manage to drill into straight lines : in an isolated 

 group in a verdant glade, they are seen for the first time to 

 best advantage ; and what might not be done with these and 

 their like by making mixed groups, or letting each plant stand 

 distinct upon the grass, perfectly isolated in its beauty ! 



Let us again try to simply illustrate the idea. Take an 

 important spot in a pleasure ground — a sweep of grass in 

 face of a shrubbery, and see what can be done with it by 

 means of these isolated plants. If, instead of leaving it 

 in the bald state in which it is often found, we try to place 

 distinct things in an isolated way upon the grass, the 

 margin of shrubbery will be quite softened, and a new and 

 charming feature added to the garden. 



Fig. 23. 



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Yucca flaccida. 

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 Arundo Donax vaiiegata. 



Retinospora, sps 

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 Acanthus Lusitanicus. * 



Pampas grass. 



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Canna nigricans. Group of Tritoma grandis- 

 * * 



Statice latifolia. Rheum Emodi. Ferula glauca. 



Fine herbaceous and other plants isolated on the grass. 



If one who knew many plants were arranging them on 

 the ground, and had a large stock to select from, he might 

 make no end of striking effects. In the case of the smaller 

 things, as the Yucca and variegated Arundo, groups of 

 four or five good plants should be used to form one mass, 

 and everything should be perfectly distinct and isolated, so 

 that a person could freely move about amongst the plants 

 without touching them. In addition to such arrangements, 

 two or three individuals of a species might be placed here 



