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HARDr PLANTS FOR THE 



tlie Tipper part of eacli of its abundant sLoots 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 



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Heracleum flavescens. 



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

 association with noble autumn flowers^ like the Tritoma and 

 Pampas grass. As regards leaf effect^ 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 effect in one of the Paris 



