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may be filled with different plants, all the plants in each 

 basket to require the same treatment, and placed in appro- 

 priate situations, so that all the available places may be made 

 attractive by their presence. Do not overlook the fact that 

 some of our most beautiful and best adapted plants for this 

 purpose are those with ornamental foliage, the flowers of 

 which are in many instances small, or perhaps we might say, 

 they are not attractive. Nothing is more graceful or more at- 

 tractive for the centre of a basket than a seedling plant of 

 Centaurea Gymnocarpa, yet the flowers greatly resemble those 

 of the Scotch thistle. 



