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sweep the ground, to the central ones that point up as straight 

 as a needle. 



But if the garden is furnished with conservatories properly 

 heated for the winter, there is scarcely any limit to the beauty 



Fig. 4. 



Yucca Pendula. 



Hardy evergreen, fine foliaged type. 



which may be attained. What, for instance, can be more beau- 

 tiful than the shady and sheltered dell figured on the next page, 

 with tree-ferns and other stove plants placed out for the summer. 



The author speaks with approval of a peculiar mode of prepa- 

 ring the beds for the finer sub-tropical plants as practised in 

 Battersea Park. Here many of the beds are raised above 

 the level of the ground, and underneath and around the mass of 

 light rich soil is a good layer of brick rubbish, as shown in the 



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