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the front, leaning forward or outward the better to 

 prepare them for future pegging. 



Among shrubs more suitable to the garden proper, 

 though also good for rough places in the very poorest 

 and hottest soil, is the Jerusalem Sage {Phlomis fruti- 

 cosa) ; a curious and picturesque plant in all states, 

 the leaves much like those of Sage, but stifFer and 

 whiter, and with a strongly waved outline. Stems 

 and leaves are covered with a woolly coating that 

 feels like a rough-piled velvet ; looser and browner 

 on the stems. 



At its full growth it is nearly five feet high, 

 and will spread to seven feet, tumbling about in 

 picturesque masses when old. In a roughish place, 

 where such a form is suitable, it is a strikingly 

 handsome plant, but in trimmer garden spaces, if 

 it threatens to invade equally worthy neighbours, 

 it very well bears cutting; in this case it is best 

 to take out whole branches from the bottom, to avoid 

 the stiff, stunted look that a shrub has when pruned 

 all over. There are other kinds of Phlomis, but this 

 one is the best. 



The Tree- Lupin is another of our grand plants, 

 growing quickly from seed, and at its third and 

 usually last year quite a large bush. Except from 

 the fact of its short life, for it is scarcely hard 

 wooded, it would be a grand wall plant, cover- 

 ing a space ten feet high by the third year ; but 

 though the life may be prolonged for a year or 



