. The parks, promenades, & gardens of Paris, described and considered in relation to the wants of our own cities, and the public and private gardens. Gardens; Parks. 192 SUBTROPICAL PLANTS EOR THE FLOWER GARDEN. of our flower-garden plants is to assume a flatness and dead level, so to speak; and it is the very qualities possessed by theCannasfor counteracting this that makes them so valuable. Even the grandest of the other subjects preserve this tameness of upper surface outline when grown in great quantities : not so these, the leaves of which, even when grown in dense groups, always carr
. The parks, promenades, & gardens of Paris, described and considered in relation to the wants of our own cities, and the public and private gardens. Gardens; Parks. 192 SUBTROPICAL PLANTS EOR THE FLOWER GARDEN. of our flower-garden plants is to assume a flatness and dead level, so to speak; and it is the very qualities possessed by theCannasfor counteracting this that makes them so valuable. Even the grandest of the other subjects preserve this tameness of upper surface outline when grown in great quantities : not so these, the leaves of which, even when grown in dense groups, always carry the eye up pleasantly from the humbler plants, and are grand aids in ef- fecting that har- mony between the important tree and shrub embellishments of our gardens and their sur- roundings, and the dwarf flower- bed vegetation, which is so much wanted. Another charm of these most useful sub- jects is their power of with- standing the cold and storms of autumn. They do so better than Oanna nigricans. many of our hardy open-air plants, so that when the last leaves have been blown from the Lime, and the Dahlia and Heliotrope have been hurt by frost, you may see them waving as greenly and gracefully as the vegetation of a temperate stove. Many of the subtropical plants, used for the beauty of their leaves, are so tender that they go off in autumn, or. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Robinson, W. (William), 1838-1935. London, J. Murray
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