60 On a Method of 



native species, referring in a general manner to the foreign 

 ones. My object in this was chiefly brevity ; as I might 

 otherwise have transcribed a large portion of our catalogue of 

 cultivated plants. Thus, every Sedum which is hardy, and 

 every Diahthus which we can cultivate, will grow in this 

 manner ; and to have quoted nominally the whole of such 

 lists would have been tedious. A few genera, of which we 

 have no examples, are named in a note, or alluded to as offer- 

 ing probabilities. 



On the other hand, the catalogue is too long in one sense, 

 because it includes many plants which no one would be at the 

 trouble of cultivating. But I did not well know exactly where 

 to stop in omitting ; while, as the fact itself is a question of 

 botanical physiology, I thought it inexpedient to sacrifice a 

 catalogue once made ; since that bare catalogue might, in ano- 

 ther way, interest those who have attached themselves to our 

 native Flora. I am not aware, finally, that I have omitted 

 any thing necessary ; and shall be pleased, if a suggestion so 

 simple, and no less neglected, shall add any thing to the 

 amusement or interest of those who occupy themselves with 

 this elegant pursuit ; shall lead to the display or production of 

 one new beauty, or the concealment of one deformity. And 

 if I could once have referred, for a full proof of the truth and 

 the effects, to a flower-garden once constructed by myself at 

 Dunkeld, I must regret that I can no longer command that ; 

 the whole of this particular part of that garden having been 

 destroyed to give way to some alterations. 



Catalogue of Plants which admit of being cultivated in and on Walls. 

 An asterisk * marks the few which are most deserving of cultivation. 



Antirrhinum *, almost the whole 

 genus 



— cymbalaria 



— elatine 



— repens 



— linaria 



— orontium 



— majus 



— arvense 



— minus 



Antirrhinum spurium 



With every other hardy one of 

 this genus. 

 Aiva 



— prsecox 



— flexuosa 

 Arab is 



— th ali ana 



— stricta 



— turret a 



