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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ November, 
beauty like Thalictrum minus, and the hardy Ferns ; fascinatingly simple 
and elegant with things like the Snowflakes, and other bulbs and spring 
flowers ; rich and imposing with well-grown Larkspurs, Lilies, and the 
like ; silvery with pretty glistening plants from Antennaria tomentoso to 
Salvia argentea —many of this tone being graceful in leaf; or gay, neat, and 
“ specimen-like,” with tiny Menziesias and allied plants, much dwarfer, but 
not a whit less beautiful than the big Heaths of our shows. But it is vain 
to enumerate. We may cull from the choicest vegetation of every northern 
and temperate country, from the highest Alps to the rocks of the sea-shore, 
and gather the floral treasures of the valleys of Greece and Italy, of the 
slopes of the Bocky Mountains, or of the rich plains of northern Asia without 
exhausting the precious gems of hardy plants, with which this our world 
is bejewelled. 
Let me glance for a moment at the capabilities of many hardy plants for showing—select¬ 
ing a few of the most suitable kinds. The Anemones afford a few choice things for early 
exhibitions, as A. lulgens, sylvestris, and the varieties of coronaria, while the white Anemone 
Honorine Jobert, would form a fine specimen for the summer and autumn. Then there are 
the Ilepaticas which surely are worthy of being grown well in pots for their own sakes ; 
Ranunculus amplexicaulis (a very pretty pot plant), aconitifolius flore-pleno, acris flore- 
pleno, bullatus hore-pleno of Henderson; the double Caltha ; the Trolliuses which might be 
readily grown into fine large pot specimens that would look very imposing at shows, and help 
to perfume them also ; the choicest of the Aquilegias, which would form attractive specimen 
plants; and the Delphiniums staked out and well grown in good soil in large pots, ought to 
make a show of their unequalled and greatly varied blues and purples, which would take every¬ 
body by surprise. Passing on, there are the Epimediums (neat in habit) ; the Dielytras; the 
Arabises; the Aubrietias; the Alyssums (montanum and spinosum, in addition to saxatile) ; 
the JEthionemas; the Drabas (for pans), the Iberises (bushy low specimens coming down 
well over the pots); the Double Rockets (in good specimens); Helianthemums, Violets, 
Parnassias, Gypsophilas, and Dianthuses; Saponaria ocymoides; Silene alpestris, acaulis, 
Schafta, and Elizabeth® ; the Lychnises alpina, flos-Jovis, and Viscaria flore-pleno (the finely- 
coloured variety); Arenarias (particularly montana); Cerastiums; Linums; Slalva campanu- 
lata (a dwarf decumbent beauty, too rarely seen); Callirrhoes; Geranium striatum, lancastriense, 
argenteum, and cinereum; Erodium Manescavii and Richardi (the last in pans) ; Oxalis Bowie- 
ana, floribunda, and others ; Genista sagittalis; Ononis arvensis alba; Anthyllis montana; 
Astragalus monspessulanus and others; Coronilla minima and varia; Orobus vernus (there 
are several distinct varieties); Spiraea japonica; Geum coccineum and montanum ; Potentilla, 
in great variety; Acaena novae-zelandiae (for pans); (Enotheras (for tall or dwarf specimens) ; 
Zauschneria californica; Sedums in great variety—best shown in pans as a rule, as are also 
Sempervivums and Saxifragas. Of these three families alone, beautiful and attractive classes 
might be made. Then there are Eryngiums, particularly alpinutn and amethystinum ; Cornus 
canadensis and suecica; Linnaea borealis; Morina longifolia; Liatrises; Antennarias (several); 
Stenactis speciosa; Craspedia Richea; Asters, several of the very choicest kinds would make good 
pot plants, for example—versicolor, turbinellus, and elegans ; double and variegated Daisies ; 
Gailiardias and Rudbeckias (both of these would come in finely with such things as the tall 
white autumn-flowering Anemone, Statice latifolia, Sedum spectabile, and the like); Santo- 
linas; Artemisias (some of the silvery kinds would prove very effective in pots) ; Achilleas 
(tomentosa, aurea, oegyptiaca, Ptarmica flore-pleno, and others); Pyrethrums of the carneum 
breed, in fine variety ; Lobelias of the tall herbaceous type in variety; Symphyandra pendula; 
Campanulas, many fine kinds both dwarf and tall; Platycodon grandiflorum; Heaths, the 
dwarfer and better varieties; Gaultheria procumbens; the neat little Andromedas, Men¬ 
ziesias and Rhododendrons ; the Pyrolas ; Asclepias tuberosa ; Gentianas in variety ; Spigeiia 
marilandica and Rhexia virginica (both charming plants in peat); Polemonium coeruleum 
variegatum ; Lithospermum prostratum and fruticosum; Myosotis dissitidora, alpestris, and 
sylvatica; Phloxes, both the bright little species that lie like moss on the ground, and the 
many noble varieties of the taller kinds that are now in our nurseries ; Convolvulus mauri- 
tanicus and lineatus ; Pulmonarias; Symphytum caucasicum and bohemicum; Omphalodes 
verna and Luciliae; Bamondia pyrenaica; Antirrhinum rupestris and majus (the last in fine 
