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how seldom does one see it ! The plant photographed grew in the garden 

 of the Rev. W. J. Packe at Feering, in Essex, a devoted lover of hardy 

 flowers. 



And as it is with Acanthus latifolius, so it might be, so it would be, 

 with a hundred and one other similarly beautiful and hardy plants if 



Fig. 208. — Acanthus latifolius at Peering Vicarage, Kklvkdon. 



people would but abandon once and for all their ambition to grow " rari- 

 ties " simply as rarities, without reference to their real beauty, as compared 

 with commoner and less difficult subjects. 



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