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management. It would be no difficult matter to swell this paper 
by describing the superior and ready means of embellishment, 
this would place in the reach of every one, without regard to 
professional acquirements, affording even the suburban tyro a 
chance of ornamenting his garden-plot with subjects possessing 
no mean amount of interest. 
The greater facility offered in the culture of a native over an 
exotic plant is however so apparent, as to need no enforcing. 
The following are a few which cannot fail to requite whatever 
attention they may meet, for even in their present state they 
are beautiful. 
Campanula rotundifolia, Hare Bell. 
Silene acaulis, Stemless Catchfly. 
-- conica. Corn-field ditto. 
- anglica, English ditto. 
- Armeria, Lobels ditto. 
Agrostemma coronaria, Rose Campion. 
--— Flos-cuculi, Ragged Robbin. 
Saponaria officinalis, Soap Wort. 
Erica cinerea, Fine-leaved Heath. 
-Tetralix, Cross-leaved ditto, and their varieties. 
Ononis arvensis, Rest Harrow. 
Hieracium, any of the species, Hawkweed. 
Sylva. 
THE GROWTH OF HEATHS IN THE OPEN 
BORDER. 
Previous to last spring I had heard of growing Ericas in a 
surprising manner by means of planting them in a bed in the 
open air, and in fact had seen something of the sort at one or 
two of the principal metropolitan nurseries, and therefore being 
very partial to the tribe I felt disposed to attempt the method, 
or at least to give it a trial; accordingly twenty-four plants were 
selected for the purpose, and I now send you the result. 
It will be better perhaps to describe the bed, that others who 
may be induced to try the same means may know how to 
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