332 LONDON PARKS & GARDENS 
Very many things may succeed well that are not 
specially noted here, but the following list of fifty her¬ 
baceous plants have all been seen really growing, and 
coming up, year after year, in private gardens in London. 
Some are not so sturdy as others; for instance, neither 
alyssum nor phlox flourish as well as thrift or the 
members of the iris tribe, but all are hardy in London. 
Thomas Fairchild, who had a famous nursery garden 
at Hoxton, writing of City gardens in 1722, gives his 
experience of plants that succeed best, and many on 
his list are those that do well still. He specially notes 
some growing in the most shut-in parts of the City, 
which were flourishing: fraxinella in Aldermanbury, 
monkshood and lily of the valley near the Guildhall, 
bladder senna in Crutched Friars, and so on, mentioning 
many of those which still prove the most smoke-resisting. 
One large, coarse, but handsome plant deserves mention, 
as it grows so well it will seed itself, and that is the 
giant heracleum. It propagates itself in the garden of 
Lowther Lodge, Kensington Gore, and in much more 
confined spaces, even in the garden used by the London 
Hospital, near the Mile End Road. 
LIST OF FIFTY HERBACEOUS PLANTS 
Chrysanthemums. 
Columbines. 
Candytuft. 
Carnations. 
Centaurea. 
Alyssum. 
Auricula. 
Bachelors’ buttons. 
Buglos. 
Campanula—several varieties. 
Comfrey. 
Crane’s bill. 
Creeping Jenny. 
Crown Imperial. 
Cyclamen. 
Day lilies. 
Dictamnus fraxinella (burning bush). 
Doronicum (leopard’s bane). 
Erigeron (Fleabane). 
Funkias (Plantain lilies). 
