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all our gardens, that I wished to examine it with 

 you. It differs, however, from the plant that 

 grows wild on old walls, and the roofs of houses, in 

 having somewhat larger flowers, with petals not of 

 an uniform yellow, but stained with brown or rust 

 colour ; but the two plants are very nearly alike. 

 The leaves are spear-shaped, and the stem is some- 

 what shrubby. 



There are two other native species of Cheiran'- 

 thus ; one of which, the Inca'nusj or Stock-gilly- 

 flower, is very much cultivated in gardens, and has 

 been found wild only in one place in England. 

 The Sinua'tus, or Sea-stock, grows upon the sea- 

 shore ; and in both these species the flowers are 

 purplish, and the whole plant is covered with a 

 short whitish down. 



EDWARD. 



The stem of the Wall-flower is so hard and 

 woody, that it is very like a shrub. Is it one ? 



MOTHER. 



No, my dear ; but it is called shrub-like, from 

 its having a woody stem. It is a perennial plant ; 

 and in old gardens I have seen the stem so thick, 

 and so like wood, that I could almost have mistaken 

 it for a shrub myself: and I have been told, that 

 it grows very well from cuttings; in which also 

 it agrees with the shrubs. 

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