OLD-FASHIONED GARDEN FLOWERS. 



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have proved it for years to do grandly in ordinary garden soil, 

 "both exposed and in the shade of fruit trees. When once 

 established it propagates itself freely by seed. I ought to add 

 that it answers admirably grown in pots for window decoration, 

 the rich foliage nearly hiding the pot. 

 Flowering period, May to October. 



Corydalis Nobilis. 



NOBLE or GREAT-FLOWERED CORYDALIS; Nat. Ord. 



FTJMARIACE2E. 



A HARDY tuberose perennial, imported from Siberia in 1783. It 

 is one of that section of the Fumitories called " Hollowe Roote," 



Fia. 29. CORYDALIS NOBILIS. 

 (One-half natural size; blossom, natural size.) 



the appropriateness of which name is most amply illustrated in 

 the species now under consideration. If, in the first or second 

 month of the year, a strong specimen is examined, the long and 

 otherwise stout tuberous root will be found, immediately under 

 the healthy and plump crown, to be not only hollow, but so 

 decayed that the lower and heavy fleshy parts of the root, which 



