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HARDY HERBACEOUS PLANTS. 
When cultivated in pots, herbaceous plants will require rather 
stronger and richer soil than they have been accustomed to in 
the borders of the garden, for being limited in quantity, the dif¬ 
ference must be made up to them in the quality of the earth 
employed, and I have no doubt of loam proving the best staple; 
it will probably require lightening and enriching with some nearly 
rotten hot-bed manure, but this must be used with caution, or 
there will exist a great chance of the plants, or, at least, some of 
them, assuming a more leafy character than may be desirable. 
Yet we must not suppose, because we have free-growing subjects 
to deal with, that they are to be managed without a due share of 
attention ; we must remember they are going among plants w hich 
will display the highest culture, and, unless our hitherto unpre¬ 
tending little plants are marked by some appearance of care, they 
will be absolutely and deservedly despised; the foliage must be 
clean, whole, and healthy, the plants well bloomed, and the whole 
neatly arranged. Beginners may, perhaps, be benefited by a hint 
that little bits of plants will be next to useless ; masses will be 
required of most things, so that each individual may be a 
specimen. 
Acynos grandiflorus ; a purple flowering trailer. 
Agrostemma Bungeana ; large scarlet, rising a foot and a half. 
Anemone japonicum ; purple, attaining about a foot. 
Argemone mexicana ; bright yellow, about the same height. 
Betonica incana ; flesh colour, rising about six inches. 
Campanula muralis ; light blue, trailer. 
Chelone harbata; carmine, a branching plant about two feet 
high. 
Crucianella stylosa; deep rose, trailer, rather common, but 
pretty. 
Delphinium Barlowii; deep blue, rising a foot and a half. 
Dianthus Hendersonii; crimson, one foot, very handsome. 
Gentiana Catesbcei; deep blue, one foot. 
Geum coccineum ; scarlet, two feet in height. 
Gypsophila repens ; white, attains about six inches. 
Hapalostephlum grandiflorum ; yellow, a foot and a half. 
Hesperis matrionalis ; either the double white or double red, 
a foot and a half. 
