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moderate -sized shrubs and hardy Ferns. The Pa)ony family is 

 another example of a large range of summer flowers that deserves 

 such treatment, in addition to their use in other places. A whole 

 wealth of garden beauty exists in this one tribe alone, for, apart 

 from those best known— namely, the double varieties of the old 

 garden kind, the Chinese herbaceous, and the old Tree Paoony — 

 there are many other kinds, both species and their cultivated 

 varieties, that are now happily available for garden use. We owe 

 a great deal to the taste and labours of some of the Continental 

 nurserymen, who have turned their attention to producing new 

 and beautiful forms of tree and herbaceous Peonies, while those 

 at home have put at our disposal many good species invaluable 

 for garden use. When they are better known, everyone who 

 cares for good hardy flowers will wish to grow the delicate pale 

 yellow Pceonia Wittmanniana, the rosy-scarlet P. lobata, 

 P. hybrida with its delicate foliage and brilliant flowers, also 

 P. Broteri and P. tritemata, two of the noblest as foliage plants. 



Many a beautiful garden-picture may also be made by the 

 placing of quite a small number, or even a single example, of 

 some stately plant in a quiet place by itself, such as a group of 

 Lilium giganteum with its noble flower-spikes and its broad 

 glistening leaves. A group of this grand Lily in partial shade, 

 and backed by trees or small shrubs, shows one of the stateliest 

 forms that can be seen of a flowering plant of one year's growth. 



Such another example is offered by the Californian Tree 

 Poppy (Bomneya Coulteri), which, when well established, will 

 grow in one season into a bush seven feet high, and as much 

 through. It is a remarkably beautiful plant, and to an eye trained 

 to harmonies of colour singularly pleasing in the relation of its 

 large milk-white flowers and pale blue-green leaves. It delights 

 in a sunny, well- sheltered place in a light soil. 



The limits of this paper do not admit of more than just touch- 

 ing upon the many beauties to be derived from climbing and 

 trailing plants, and those suitable for special or difficult 

 conditions. 



Old walls are easily made beautiful by sowing a few seeds of 

 Wallflowers, Snapdragons, Red Valerian, and Rock Pinks, and 

 even a heap of hungry sand will grow to perfection the hand- 

 some Lyme Grass and the beautiful native Sea Holly. 



There is no end to the interest of this kind of gardening, and 



