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HARDY PLANTS FOR THE 



in the autumnal gusts — tlie burial plnmes as it were of our 

 summer too early dead ? WTiat tender plant so effective as 

 tliis in giving a new aspect of vegetation to our gardens^ if 

 it be tastefully placed and well-grown ? Long before it 

 flowers it possesses more merit for its foliage and babit tban 

 scores of things cultivated indoors for tbeir effect — Dasyli- 



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rions; &c., for examj^le^ and it would be well worthy of 

 being extensively used if one of its silken-crested wands 

 never put forth in autumn. It is not enough to j)lace it 

 in out-of-the-way spots — the general scene of every garden 

 and pleasure ground should be influenced by it ; it should 

 be x^lanted even far more extensively than it is at present^ 



