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garden rockery, and one of the best known of garden plants. The 

 Woodsorrel, Omits acetosella, haunts shady places, where it may be 

 quickly found by its beautiful tufts of delicate thrice-divided leaves, 

 like spiritual clover leaves, and delicate white flowers, which are 

 marked with fine pencil-like lines. Lastly, to complete the May 

 garland, bear in mind to hunt the woods well for the Herb Paris, 



HEEB PAEIS. 



Paris quadrifolia, a most elegant and peculiar plant, allied to the 

 Smilax, which you may as easily determine when you find it by the 

 aid of the subjoined figure, as by the most elaborate description. 



''The honeysuckle round the porch has woven its wavy bowers, 

 And by the meadow -trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers, 

 And the wild marsh-marigold shines like fire in the swamps and hollows grey ; 

 And I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May." 



Teisnison. 



SOLLYA. 



WO varieties of this genus — viz., heterophylla and 

 linearis — although not deserving to be classed amongst 

 the most showy inmates of our plant-houses, are never- 

 theless worthy of a place in even limited collections. 

 They are exceedingly easy to manage, soon form large 

 specimens, and produce their pretty blue flowers long and pro- 

 fusely during the summer months, when a variety of specimens 

 of hard-wooded plants is much wanted. Cuttings of short-jointed 

 bits of the young wood in a half-ripe state, if planted in light 



