Dwarf plants with clover-like leaflets and pretty rosy or yellow flowers. At least two of the species in cultivation, viz. O. Bowieana and O. floribunda, might be naturalised on sandy soils amidst vegetation not more than 5 inches or 6 inches high ; and the family is so numerous that probably other members of it will be found equally free growing.

The Great Japan Knotweed (Polygonum cuspidatum). (Showing the plant in flower.).

Polygonum cuspidatum - If, instead of the formal character of much of our gardening, plants of bold types similar to the above were introduced along the sides of woodland walks and shrubbery borders, how much more enjoyable such places would be, as at almost every step there would be something fresh to attract notice and gratify the eye, instead of which such parts are generally bare, or given up to weeds and monotonous rubbish.