FRITILLARIA. 
it were blossoms of Belliwm rotundifolium, powdered over the mass. 
At first its seedlings seem resistent and hearty: in any case it should 
have a specially warm sheltered place in light well-drained soil. 
Ficaria.—There is a finer Celandine than our own in Spain, 
I’, grandiflora, sometimes called Ranunculus ficarioeides ; there are 
also double forms and rather presumptuously named white forms 
(that have really only lost the gilding and gone pallid) of our ordinary 
plant ; and there are a few other species too, ali of the same kidney, and 
all neat bright things for admittance to a cool corner, where nothing 
better is wanted, and where their metallic glitter may cheer the dawn 
of the year. 
Fragaria.—There are countless strawberries, ramping running 
weeds in every degree of merit ; but by no means the worst, when all 
is said and done, is F’. vesca in its varieties, if any waste corner is to be 
carpeted. Exactly similar is I’. indica, but that this has yellow flowers 
and its luscious-looking crimson strawberries are a delusion and a 
fraud. The handsomest, however, is the wildy rampant Ff. Dal- 
toniana, with glossy dark foliage and fine white blooms—a valuabie 
cumberer of the ground, so long as it does not cumber it too much, 
and become as pervasive a pest as Potentilla reptans. 
Francoa.—The Bridal Wreaths verge upon being hardy in a 
sheltered warm corner, but are best, and best-suited, in the green- 
house, where their towering tails of pinky-white seem most in 
character, and are most tranquilly displayed. 
Frankenia laevis, our own common Sea-heath, is the best of 
its race for the garden—a useful little plant to carpet the ground, with 
its minute neat foliage and pretty pink stars, in any place that asks 
for covering by something not of great importance. On sunny banks 
in goodish soil it should serve admirably as a cover for Crocus and 
other buibs. 
Frasera speciosa lies in so calling itself. For in reality it is 
an ugly thing, rather like a Swertia with greeny-white flowers. It 
comes from North America, loves shade, hates lime, and grows a yard 
high. 
Fritillaria.—A lovely race, but adequately coped with by cata- 
logues of such delights, except that they always follow the mistake of 
the Bot. Mag., Plate 6365, in giving the name of /. armena toa charm- 
ing cone-belled yellow Fritillary, whose real name is F. Sibthorbiana, 
whereas the true F’. armena is a dingy and lurid purple-flowered plant 
of lower stature. Many of the race are very miffy or very mimpish 
or both, and the family all round has a bad character. Among those 
members of it, however, who have earned a better, comes first our 
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