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on the Potato produced a good crop of fruit, although not equal 

 in quantity, nor were the individual fruits so large as those pro- 

 duced by plants growing on their own roots. The Potato stock 

 did not produce the least perceptible change in the flavour of 

 the fruit. A curious circumstance in connection with this union 

 was that the Potato tubers emitted roots quite freely, where, 

 under normal conditions, buds are produced. The Potato stems 

 grafted on Tomato plants did not grow so freely as the Tomato 

 on the potato. Small tubers were produced in the axils of the 

 leaves. The tubers were quite green, and in course of growth 

 produced a number of small buds, 



HARDY-PLANT BORDERS. 



By Miss Gertrude Jekyll, V.M.H., and Mr. H. Selfe- 

 Leonard. 



We have been asked by the Council of the Royal Horticultural 

 Society to contribute to its Journal some plans of hardy 

 plant borders, prepared more particularly with a view to main- 

 taining a long succession of blossom or plant beauty. The 

 following plans are the result. The observation is obvious that 

 they are but a slight contribution to a subject of great import- 

 ance, much in want of thorough and varied treatment at the 

 hands of those practically experienced in garden arrangements ; 

 and we therefore trust that similar contributions may be made 

 from other quarters. 



The first of the following plans (fig. 102) is for a hardy flower 

 border on a large scale to furnish a decorative plant picture 

 and a succession of flowers from about the middle of May to the 

 middle or end of September. It will be well, however, to state 

 a little more particularly the lines on which it has been pre- 

 pared, both as an aid in the planting (it may be in the further 

 planting or bettering) of the border, and to prevent those from 

 adopting it (and they may be many) whose wants and conditions 

 it may not suit. 



In the first place, it is so far on a large scale (say 15 ft, wide 

 by 135 ft. long) that though it might perhaps be much enlarged, 

 even, with advantage, to suit large places (somewhat similar pro- 



