SUBTROPICAL GARDEN. 



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Fig. 87. 



plantings but merely asking for a little ordinary preparation of 

 the soil at firsthand yet they are merely grown as adjuncts even 

 in good gardens, and in 

 many you can scarcely 

 find them. For every 

 quality that should 

 make a plant valuable 

 in the eyes of the 

 flower gardener J they 

 cannot be surpassed by 

 any subjects that re- 

 quire expensive care 

 all through the winter ; 

 indeed we may say they 

 cannot be equalled by 

 any of such — a suffi- 

 cient proof that it is 

 not only those who 

 possess stoves, green- 

 houses, and glass-gar- 

 dens, so to speak, that 

 may enjoy the highest 

 beauty in their gardens. 



A most satisfactory 

 ciatinsr these Tritomas 



Anemone japonica alba. 



result may be produced by asso- 

 with the Pampas and the two 

 Arundos, the large Statice latifolia, and the strong and 

 beautiful autumn-flowering Anemone japonica alba. This 

 is peculiarly suited for association with hardy herbaceous 

 plants of fine habit, and should be in every garden where a 

 hardy flower is valued. 



Verbascum vernale. — Most of us know how very dis- 

 tinct and imposing are the larger Verbascums, and those 

 who have attempted their culture must soon have found out 

 what transient far-seeding things they are. Of a biennial 

 character, their culture is most unsatisfactory : they either 

 migrate into the adjoining shrubbery or disappear altogether. 

 The possession of a thoroughly noble perennial one must 

 therefore be a desideratum, and such a plant will be found 

 in the Hungarian Verbascum vernale. This is fine in leaf 



