THE JARDIN DES PLANTES. 



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\arieties of Iris pumila look well in early spring, and 

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

 tomed to see so employed in England. Tlius the good 

 r double variety of Lychnis Viscaria has been very pretty as 



an edging, 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 



