CRUCIFERAE 61 
either hand; the prettiest Fumitory I ever saw in my 
life still dwells among the dead leaves round a Korean 
monastery high on a hillside, buried in forests (the only 
forests now left in Korea, for the pious monks have 
respected what the foolish peasants have everywhere else 
destroyed). Does any reader know this Corydalis, I 
wonder? In early March it gleamed here and there 
amid the fallen leaves—the daintiest little flower, with 
fairy-like, frail foliage, and a few rather large blossoms of 
a delicious violet. It has a small bulbous root, but all 
my efforts to bring it back into cultivation proved vain. 
The vast Natural Order of the Cross-bearers evidently 
thinks that in providing us with all our important vege- 
tables it has done quite enough for humanity. For few 
other Natural Orders are horticulturally so barren of 
charm; among the Cruciferae that one can use in the 
rock-garden—or, for that matter, in any other flower- 
garden either—there are astonishingly few of any great 
merit (such as Aubrietia, Aethionema, and Ionopsidion), 
and but few of any merit at all. The race is, generally 
speaking, an open-ground one, found most abundantly in 
the Old World, and such Cross-bearers as we like to use 
are generally quite easy of culture. 
The greatest and most important group is that of the 
Aubrietias, plants of the very first rank for any sunny, 
light, and not too choice corner of the garden. I have 
them all over the place as edgings to the stone-work, 
where they look lovely in their time—so many cushions 
or torrents of rose, carmine, or violet. By now the 
species have been swamped with garden-raised varieties, 
and these, in turn, occur perpetually in almost every 
batch of seedlings, so that every one will do well to buy 
packets of some good Aubrietia-seed and select their 
strain. Moerhewmi is an especial pet of my own, and ve 
have one called Craven Gem, which has the great merit 
