. The Garden : an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. mingall the winter in the running water of a shallow ditch, andare quite uninjured. For cut flowers this plant deservesattention— its white bracts and black anthers contrastingtogether very beautifully, and for grouping in moistSphagnumMoss and water,in shallow vasesor glass dishes,along with pur-ple Crocuses,Snowdrops,Sweet Violets,Hepaticas, Iris,and other short-stalked springflowers, it isvery sweet andattractive. Ondry sunnybanks a fewearly Violetsare to be found,and the hardyPrimroses areshowing colourhere and
. The Garden : an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. mingall the winter in the running water of a shallow ditch, andare quite uninjured. For cut flowers this plant deservesattention— its white bracts and black anthers contrastingtogether very beautifully, and for grouping in moistSphagnumMoss and water,in shallow vasesor glass dishes,along with pur-ple Crocuses,Snowdrops,Sweet Violets,Hepaticas, Iris,and other short-stalked springflowers, it isvery sweet andattractive. Ondry sunnybanks a fewearly Violetsare to be found,and the hardyPrimroses areshowing colourhere and there ;indeed, the com-mon yellow .anddouble lilacvarieties havebeen iu bloom,more or less,for the past Theyellow Jasmine(J. nudiflorum),associated withI vy-co V ere dwalls, is now atits very best—a green back-ground sprin-kled with gold-en stars, andin some placeswe have notedthe effect stillfurther height-ened by varie-gated Buony-mus and Ivies,among which the handsome Dwa scarlet - berried Cotoneaster Simmonsii and Pyracautha japonica are trained. F. W. Dwarf Herbaceous Calceolarias.—MM. Vilmorin, Andrieux,& Cie., of Paris, have lately introduced a dwarf strain of ,ria». They are described aa remarkable for a dwarf, bushyhabit, with the flowers arranged in a large and bouquet,the blossoms being of quality as regards size and markings. Eryngium eburneum.—Under the head of E. Leavcnworthii,reference was made to several species with ornamental foliage recentlyintroduced to gardens, and their decorative value is so considerablethat some special notice of their merits seems desirable. The is now pretty well known, and it may be taken as the type of the more recent introduclions in the same section of thegenus, which agree with it in forming radical tufts of narrowlylinear or channelled foliage, from 1 to 2 |ft. or morein length, with parallel nerves, and spiny at the margin, whilst fromthe
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