IBE'RIS SEMPERVI'RENS. 



NARROW-LEAVED CANDY-TUFT. 

 Class. Order. 



TBTRADYNAMIA. SILICDLO8A. 



Natural Order. 



CRUCIFERJE. 



No. 82. 



The name of this genus is one retained from Di- 

 oscorides ; and was applied by him to some plant 

 resembling the present one. The term is supposed 

 to have been originally deduced from Iberia, a name 

 used by the Greeks for Spain ; where, possibly, the 

 Iberis of the Greeks may have been first noticed. 

 Sempervirens is an appellation compounded from the 

 Latin, signifying always green, in allusion to its 

 evergreen habits. 



It is a most desirable little shrub ; for as well as 

 decorating the garden with its beautiful white tufts 

 of flowers, during two months of the spring, it exhi- 

 bits, by its delicate evergreen foliage, a lively little 

 remembrance of the verdure that is past, and also a 

 foretaste of that which we are happy to anticipate as 

 again to come. Though winter may occasionally 

 seem to conquer its tenacity for life ; yet, no sooner 

 does the severest frost relax its icy grasp, than the 

 Iberis sempervirens appears again in spring-like 

 freshness, to exult in its regained liberty. 



It is very readily propagated, either by fastening 

 down its branches beneath the soil, or by cuttings 

 taken in the spring. 



Hort. Kew. 2, v. 4, 83. 



