THE JARDIN DES PLANTES. 



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Tarieties of Iris pumila look well in early springs and 

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

 tomed to see so employed in England. Thus the good 

 double Yariety of Lychnis Yiscaria has been very pretty as 



an edgings 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 



