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On the Cultivation of 



or as it concerns origin, climate, or hardiness to other injuries. 

 One only remark, at all bearing on this question, has been 

 made, and it is no less unexpected than remarkable. It is, that 

 very many of the Alpine plants will thrive in the most confined 

 allies, in the garrets of working mechanics for example, where 

 almost every other plant dies ; and without seeming at all 

 affected by a change, so enormous in every sense, as to almost 

 render the fact incredible. How far this sort of endurance 

 extends through this geographical division of plants has not 

 however been ascertained ; but it offers one broad basis which 

 will save much detail in the following catalogue. 



Such as I have been able to make this catalogue, and chiefly 

 from observations collected in Glasgow, the most smoky town 

 in Great Britain, here it is ; though I cannot pretend to say, 

 out of all these, which are the most and which the least hardy 

 in this sense. I have no doubt that many gardeners can ma- 

 terially enlarge it, and I must hope that some one will do so 5 

 supplying also that proportional scale, towards which I could 

 but have added so few fragments, that I thought them better 

 omitted altogether. These plants, of course, are ornamental 

 ones, since ornament is the object ; and I have used the most 

 popular rather than the botanical names, as the end was that 

 they should be generally understood. The latter are intro- 

 duced only where there was no English popular name, or 

 where that name itself was little known : — 



Laburnum. 

 Lilac. 

 Hawthorn. 

 American Ivy. 

 Ivy. 



Jessamine. 

 Lily of the valley. 

 Solomon's seal. 

 White lily. 

 Orange lily. 

 Yellow lily. 

 Turncap lily. 

 Periwinkle. 



Both species. 

 Matricaria parthenium, or 



Feverfew. 



Valeriana pyrenaica. 



— rubra. 

 Bladder senna. 

 Alchemilla vulgaris. 



— alpina. 

 Scilla nutans, or 



Wild hyacinth. 

 Stace armeria, or 



Thrift. 

 Scarlet bean. 

 Marigold. 

 Common bean. 

 Box. 



Mignonette. 

 Sweet William. 



