iOO FLORA HISTORICA. 



not reach the opening of the keel so as to injure 

 the anthers. Thus in a fine day you may see a 

 whole field of blossoms veer around to avoid the 

 winds, with as much exactness as an artificial 

 vane on a tower points to the quarter from Vv^hence 

 the winds blow. 



Sweet-Peas have the best effect in the pleasure 

 garden when planted so that they may climb to 

 some tree or shrub which has fiowered in the 

 spring; they convey the idea of their natural 

 liberty when so disposed, that they 



" Catch the neidibourino- shrub 



With clasping- tendrils, and invest his branch, 



Else unadorn d, with many a g-ay festoon 



And fragrant chaplet, recompensing- vv^ell 



The streng-th they borrow with the g-race they lend." 



COWPER. 



When thus disposed the seeds should be planted 

 in a circle round the stem, but at some consider- 

 able distance, as they may be guided to the trunk 

 by means of sticks placed in a sloping direction 

 from the plants to the tree, for when planted too 

 near the tree they will seldom thrive for want of 

 sufficient nourishment. Where this mode is ob- 

 jectionable, they may be sown in circular trenches, 

 and at the proper season branching stakes may 

 be placed in the centre for them to fix their ten- 

 drils on, and they then display a kind of Pea- 



