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THE AMATEUR’S FLOWER GARDEN. 
in the month of Jane was covered with a magnificent sheet 
of white flowers. Men who had for fifty years grown sea- 
kale for a living, scarcely recognized their old familiar friend 
of the kitchen garden when promoted to stand alone as an 
ornamental plant on a piece of fine turf, surrounded with 
valuable and beautiful plants from many climes. 
A SELECTION OF SUBTROPICAL PLANTS. 
Seventy Ornamental-leaved Plants, ranging from two 
to twelve feet in Height .—Acacia lophantha, Agave Ame¬ 
ricana variegata, A.lsophila australis, Andropogcn giganleum, 
Aralia papy r if era, A. Sieboldi variegata, Arundo donax versicolor, 
B ambus a arundinacea, B. himalaica, Bocconia cordata rotun - 
difolia, Caladium atrovirens, G. esculentum, 0. Javanicum , 
Ganna Annei rubra, C. Auguste Ferrier, C. Barillei, C. Biho- 
relli, C. exp ansa, C . musa hybrida, G. Marechal Vaillant, G. 
rubra superbissima, Gentaurea gymnocarpa , Ghamcepuce cassa - 
bonce, Gupania filicifolia, Gyathea arborea, G. dealbata , Gyperus 
j papyrus, Bicksonia antarctica, Dracaena australis, D. cannce - 
folia, D. Gooperi, D. draco, D. ferrea, D. indivisa, D. terminalis, 
I). cylindrica, Ferdinandia eminens, Ficus elasticus , F. For - 
teanus, Fourcroya gigantea, Lomatia ferruginea, Melianthus 
major, Monster a deliciosa, Musa ensete, M. Cavendishi, Nico - 
tiana Wigandioides, Bhormium tenax , P. tenax variegata , 
Polymnia grandis, Bhopala australis, B. corcovadensis, B. 
glaucophylla, Bicinus albidus magnificus, B. Obermanni, B. 
sanguineus, Saccharum officinarum, Solanum acanthocarpum, 
8 . giganteum, 8. marginatum, S. Warcewiczoides, Sonchus 
pinnatus, Theophrasta imperialis , Wigandia caracasana, Yucca 
aloifolia variegata, Y. filamentosa variegata, Y. quadricolor, 
Zea caragua, Z. Japonica. 
Twenty-five Hardy Ornamental-leaved Plants.— Acan¬ 
thus latifolius, A. mollis , Arabia Sieboldi, Arundinaria falcata, 
Arundo conspicua, A. donax, Aspidistra lurida variegata, A. 
elatior punctata, Bambusa metake, Bocconia Japonica, Ganna 
limbata, Oarduus tauricum, Cineraria platamfolia, Grambe 
cordsifolia, Flymus arenarius , Ferula gigantea, Gynerium 
argenteum, Melianthus macrophyllus giganteus, Heracleum gigam* 
team, II. sibericum, Laportea crenulata, Melanoselinum decipiens, 
Bheum Fmodi , Budbeckia Newmanni, Salvia chionantha, Yucca 
glaucescens, Y. gloriosa, Y. recurva, Zea caragua, Z. Mays . 
