PART III.

SELECTIONS OF PLANTS FOR VARIOUS PURPOSES 221

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

_Separate plates to face the pages given._

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_Frontispiece_--Hardy and tender Plants in the Subtropical Garden.

Cannas in a London park 13

Anemone japonica alba 17

Group and single specimens of plants isolated on the grass 23

Portion of plan showing Yuccas, etc. 25

Formal arrangements in London parks 26

Tree Ferns and other Stove Plants 28

Ailantus and Cannas 30

Young Conifers, etc. 32

Gourds 34

Section of raised bed at Battersea 40

Acanthus latifolius 47

Aralia canescens 58

Aralia japonica 60

Aralia papyrifera 61

Asplenium Nidus-avis 70

Bambusa aurea 72

Bambusa falcata 74

Berberis nepalensis 79

Blechnum brasiliense 80

Bocconia cordata 81

Buphthalmum speciosum 83

Caladium esculentum 84

Colocasia odorata 85

Canna 86

Carlina acaulis 110

Caryota sobolifera 111

Centaurea babylonica 112

Chamædorea 114

Chamærops excelsa 116

Cycas 120

Tree Fern 123

Dimorphanthus mandschuricus 124

Erianthus Ravennæ 132

Ferula communis 136

Ficus elastica 139

Gynerium argenteum 142

Gunnera scabra 144

Heracleum 147

Malva crispa 153

Melianthus major 155

Monstera deliciosa 156

Montagnæa heracleifolia 157

Morina longifolia 158

Mulgedium alpinum 159

Musa Ensete 160

Nicotiana Tabacum 163

Onopordum Acanthium 164

Poa fertilis 174

Rheum Emodi 178

Rhus glabra laciniata 180

Seaforthia elegans 185

Solanum robustum 190

Solanum Warscewiczii 195

Uhdea bipinnatifida 205

Wigandia macrophylla 208

Yucca filamentosa 212

Yucca pendula 214

Yucca filamentosa variegata 217