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the upper part of eacli of its abundant shoots set thickly 

 with buds which produce flowers fully six inches across^ of 

 a showy rose colour, with straight deeply coloured veins 

 running from the rich dark crimson base of the petals, and 

 gradually becoming lost towards the margin. There is 

 reason to think it thoroughly hardy, and it is well worth a 

 trial in good soil in the southern and milder parts of Eng- 

 land and Ireland. The show it makes in autumn is really 



Fig. 83. 



Heracleum flavescens. 



very fine, and it will probably be found a grand thing for 

 association with noble autumn flowers, like the Tritoma and 

 Pampas grass. As regards leaf efi'ect, it is scarcely sub- 

 tropical — to use again that awkward term — and should 

 perhaps be classed with showy herbaceous plants ; but as 

 it was used with pretty good efl'ect in one of the Paris 



