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beautiful plant. Both are excellent rock-plants, very 

 showy when grown in masses in the crevices of calcareous- 

 or sandstone rocks. The pretty little annual known as 

 sweet alyssum (Koeniga maritima) is a nearly allied plant 

 common on sea-shores in South Europe. 



Meadow Cress, Cardamine pratensis. A handsome and 

 delicate plant growing in moist fields and meadows, and 

 forming an important feature of the scenery in early sum- 

 mer, especially in North Europe. Flowers white or lilac. 

 Beautiful for naturalizing in moist or half -shady lawns 

 where the soil is well worked and rich. It is one of the 

 most dainty plants for this purpose, growing eight or ten 

 inches high. Seeds may be sown in the grass. 



Toothwort, Dentaria. Familiar plants of moist mead- 

 ows and river-sides. Some are very attractive, growing in 

 masses on the water level along mountain streams and 

 rivulets. They may be naturalized in similar positions in 

 the garden or in moist places in rockeries. All require a rich 

 soil and a half-shady position. The best are : D. digitata, 

 leaves palmately cut or fingered, flowers large, bright pur- 

 ple ; D. diphylla, leaves three-fingered, flowers large, white, 

 tinted purple ; D. laciniata, leaves of three deeply cut 

 leaflets, flowers purple ; D. pinnata, leaves pinnate, flower 

 large, white or pale purple. Spread by means of fleshy, 

 running root-stocks. 



Honesty, Lunaria liennis. An old-fashioned border 

 plant with heart-shaped leaves and large rosy-purple flow- 

 ers in terminal racemes. Habit erect, slightly branched ; 

 flowers in summer. For naturalizing in shrubberies in rich 

 moist ground or in a similar position in the rockery ; borders. 



