PLANTS WORTH GROWING 197 
the Heucheras and Tiarellas in shape, and their 
satiny surface shows up the crimson purple tints 
that make the plant attractive, especially in Winter, 
when a cheery patch of colour is most accept- 
able. 
There is no difficulty in the culture of Tellima, 
which grows readily from seed, and may also be 
propagated by division. 
Teucrium. — Several species of Teucrium are 
among the plants that may well be tried in positions 
where, as one often hears remarked, ' Nothing 
seems to grow.' 
We may reckon among these awkward positions 
little beds at comers where cutting draughts rush 
round from narrow passage-ways. T. Chamaedrys, 
with rosy flowers on shrubby stems a foot high, 
braves such positions remarkably well. A narrow 
strip near the wall on the sunny side of the house, 
or a stony bank that gets hot and dry will find a 
home in which T. Scorodonia aureum or variegatum 
will maintain itself and produce bright and cheery 
tufts of crimpled foliage. 
Even in those comers that the sun never reaches, 
where high walls meet at right angles, keeping off 
rain as well as sunlight, the Teucriums, fiavum 
(yellow flowered), Polium (downy leaved), and 
Marum, with lilac-coloured flowers, will bravely 
struggle to make a show of pretty foliage and nettle- 
like flowers, but the last-named will stand no chance 
if it falls a prey to marauding cats, for they 
