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varieties of Iris pumila look well in early spring, and 

 many plants are used for edging which we are not accus- 

 tomed to see so employed in England. Thus the good 

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an edging, and so has the neat, bright, and pure white 

 Silene alpestris— an alpine plant not half so popular as it 

 ought to be, though I observe that some seedsmen, while 

 not offering it, sell a pretty fair proportion of the weeds 



