164 FLORA HISTORICA, 



and in the spring, which will ensure a supply of 

 plants without further trouble ; and they are ob- 

 served to endure the winter better in such situations 

 than when growing in the borders of the garden. 



The Antirrhinum may be considered rather a 

 rustic than an elegant plant, and it should therefore 

 not occupy a place in the parterre amongst choice 

 flowers, but should be mixed with the shrubs in the 

 back-ground, or placed on the banks or most ele- 

 vated parts of the grounds, where, w^hen in large 

 clumps, it produces a showy effect from the end of 

 spring to the autumn. 



The use of eating oil in this country being so 

 confined to the wealthy and higher orders of society, 

 that the middle and lower classes have rather an an- 

 tipathy than a desire for it in their food, this checks 

 the cultivating of those plants that Avoukl afford us 

 a substitute for olive-oil. Most of the continental 

 countries consume a great deal of oil, which they 

 consider indispensable in their diet, and hence they 

 seek plants whose seeds yield the best oil. In 

 Russia the Antirrhinum is sown for the sake of the 

 seed, which produces by expression an oil little in« 

 ferior to that obtained from olives. 



