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autumn, in order that the soil may get well washed to the roots, before the leave 
cover tlie trees in spring ; but in other situations there is scarcely a hazard at am 
season. i 
Another recommendation to the plant is its ability to exist and flourish ii 
almost any kind of soil and situation. In gravelly places, where the generality o 
other plants can hardly derive a sufficiency of nourishment to maintain a healthj 
growth, and a very large number will not even live, it will thrive and spreac 
vigorously ; and it exhibits little repugnance to the most adhesive clay. A bushj 
and somewhat shady spot is most consonant with its habits, but it is not difilciil 
to manage in exposed sunny places ; indeed, few plants are more accommodating. 
Where the walks through shrubberies and plantations are diversified witl, 
natural banks, artificial slopes, or rocky places, this Hypericum will be found ai^ 
exceedingly appropriate ornament. It should, however, be planted in extendec 
patches, and not scattered here and there in small isolated groups. It ir 
frequently a diflicult matter to find plants otherwise suitable that will exist oi 
steep, gravelly banks, where it is impossible to fix any large quantity of soil s(i 
long as they remain naked. For such places this shrub is admirably suited, anc’ 
when the bank is once covered, should the plants not grow with a satisfactor}j| 
vigour, a small quantity of soil or decaying leaves may be thrown in amongs| 
them from time to time. This will prove of great assistance, and the number oji 
stems will prevent it from falling or being washed to the bottom, as woulol 
invariably occur with a steep naked bank. But any aid of this kind will b| 
almost rendered unnecessary when they are overhung with trees, by the fallinJ 
leaves becoming entangled with their shoots, and settling down and rotting aboiii 
their roots, and eventually acting as a manure. 1 1 
Besides these situations, it will be found an excellent plant for covering oper 
spaces amongst rockwork extending into a plantation, or similar places runninc 
down to the margin of an artificial lake. In such places, amongst rocks (but n^| 
doubt planted), we have seen it in considerable quantities in the vicinity of somt 
of our northern lakes, where its large yellow blossoms have a gay appearance. 
CONSERVATIVE WALL AT CHATSWORTH. 
The following list, which is furnished at the request of a subscriber, enumerates 
some of the more conspicuous plants which are found to succeed well on the Con-| 
servative Wall at Chatsworth. There are many others of less import, which it is] 
not considered necessary to insert in this list ; it being offered more for those who’! 
may wish to possess a select than an extensive collection of such plants. Again ' 
there are others, which, although they grow well in this situation, and flower in great 
perfection during the summer and autumn months, are too fugitive to be admitted 
