. My garden in summer . those Cassias that possess the most reliable medicinalqualities for producing Senna, have one leaflet missingfrom the terminal pair found complete in the uselessmembers of the genus. The twisted leaf generallypresent in seedling Daffodils with maximus blood in them,the bearded and unbearded sepals Of Roses derived fromRosa canina, occur to me as a few among the manysignatures borne by plants which are of real use in con-trast with the fancied ones prated of by the upholdersof the Doctrine of Signatures. It is a hard matter to find accommodation for 7mKaempferi here, as
. My garden in summer . those Cassias that possess the most reliable medicinalqualities for producing Senna, have one leaflet missingfrom the terminal pair found complete in the uselessmembers of the genus. The twisted leaf generallypresent in seedling Daffodils with maximus blood in them,the bearded and unbearded sepals Of Roses derived fromRosa canina, occur to me as a few among the manysignatures borne by plants which are of real use in con-trast with the fancied ones prated of by the upholdersof the Doctrine of Signatures. It is a hard matter to find accommodation for 7mKaempferi here, as the edges of the New River and pondare not suitable. The river has closely-shorn grass banksthat are slapped and banged to keep their clay founda-tions hard and water tight, and so are not available forany sort of planting, and the pond is puddled with clayso that the stony banks are cut off from the water by theclay, and we must either choose plants that can standdrought for them, or build out promontories into the 38. DoLilile lunn nf JiipanciC Iris 11. ).(Stc p. jH.) Beardless Irises of Summer water for thirsty subjects. Japanese Irises will do for ashort time planted on a specially prepared promontory, butsoon exhaust it, and require a good deal of looking after, soI have not got the long stretches of them that I should like,but only a yard or two that give me great flat white andpurple flowers in July when other Irises are becomingscarce. We have made special provision for a few extrachoice kinds, such as Morning Mist, with its flush of blueon the sparkling white two-ranked falls, and /. laevigata,as it seems we must now call the I. albopurpurea that,except for its taller standard, is so much like a single/. Kaempferi. This provision takes the form of sinkinghalves of paraffin barrels in the Iris border, and havingput some coarse crocks and stones in them for drainagefilling them with rich soil and peat. Japanese Irisesthrive wonderfully under such treatment in
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