284 FLORA HISTORICA. 



CANDY-TUFT. Iberis. 



Natural Order Siliqiioscc, or Cruciformes. Crucifcr(P> 

 Juss. A Genus of the Tetradynamia Siliculosa. 



Here also, bathed in dew, 

 Plants in minutest growth 

 Are painted with flow'rs. 



Akdreini. 



In floriculture the aid of humble plants is fre- 

 quently found to be as important in the general 

 decoration of the garden as that of the more tower- 

 ing kinds ; for Nature has made the same wise 

 provision in miniature plants that we observe in the 

 smaller kinds of the animal creation, which propa- 

 gate by thousands, whilst the more gigantic tribes 

 multiply singly. 



The parent eagles will not suffer their offspring 

 to build themselves a habitation within a given dis- 

 tance, nor will the sturdy oak or the noble chestnut 

 permit their seedlings to thrive beneath the paternal 

 branches ; but that their fruit should not be formed 

 in vain, Nature has made it the food of particular 

 kinds of animals, and thus we find a due propor- 

 tion observed in every part of the creation. 



Few plants are more conspicuously ornamental 



