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lavender-lilac bloom. Other Solanuiris desirable for 

 the garden are S. aviculare and S. Warscewiczii, strong 

 growing annuals with handsome foliage, making im- 

 portant bushy gTowths that Avill occupy a cubic 

 yard of space. Allied to the Solanums are the 

 Daturas, of which the splendid D. meteloicles and its 

 double variety D. Wrightii are some of the grandest 

 objects either for cool greenhouse, or as tub-plants to 

 stand out in summer. 



In these slight notes suggested by a walk round 

 the kitchen garden I have only attempted to notice 

 a few of the more important of its occupants, and to 

 show how, to me, the interest of every one of my 

 garden crops is much increased by reflections about 

 their origin and development, and their relationship 

 to each other and to our garden flowers and wild 

 things; but there is another aspect that I always try 

 to keep in view. It is that, wherever it ma}^ be 

 possible, they should be grown in ways that are 

 beautiful and interesting, such, for instance, as the 

 way described of growing the Runner Beans on poles. 

 And one class of plants, those of the Gourd tribe, 

 can be used in many beautiful ways, for covering any 

 unsightly bank or mound, or to make a temporary 

 screen, or to train over the roofs of low sheds. 

 These plants may be either the Vegetable Marrows, 

 or any of the many ornamented Gourds, great or snmll. 

 And one other department of the garden is a source 



