Faults in Gardening 



Turnip, nor straggling looseness, nor any 

 other of similar objectionable qualities : 

 here and there, accordingly, such plants 

 should be admitted. 



NOTE 6 



I believe that nearly every plant has 

 an especial loveliness of its own a some- 

 thing distinctive, that is, which is capable 

 of endearing it to us. And though such 

 degraded forms as Torilis nodosa may 

 attract us chiefly as curiosities in all 

 but exceptional instances, this loveliness 

 founds itself upon some form of genuine 

 beauty beauty, I grant, which, as a 

 whole, is often of an inferior order ; thus 

 there is nothing to strike the eye in the 

 common wild Mignonette, or in many of 

 the Galiums, Willow-herbs, Groundsels, 

 Rushes, Sedges ; and yet it frequently 

 happens that these plants, not generally 

 attractive, excel at particular times and 

 in particular ways. Usually few people 

 would admire the Yellow Charlock, yet 

 what splendour it often casts over the 

 yet green corn-fields when blended with 

 the scarlet of the Poppies ! Anthriscus 

 vulgaris, sylvestris, and many of the 

 Umbelliferae are remarkable for the 

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