CHEIRANTHUS. 



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protected in winter. On the water side of 

 the high mound in the Botanic Gardens, 

 Regent's Park, it is in even better health 

 than at Kew, though it has had no protec- 

 tion ; and severe frosts have not hurt it. If 

 small plants are procured, grow them on 

 freely for a year or two in the greenhouse, 

 and then turn them out in April, spreading 

 the roots a little and giving them a deep 



grown in gardens. The Wallflower is a 

 native of Southern Europe, but naturalised 

 on old walls, in quarries, and on sea-cliffs. 

 It loves a wall better than any garden ; it 

 grows coarsely in garden soil, but forms a 

 dwarf enduring bush on an old wall if 

 planted in mortar, and grows even on 

 walls quite new. No variety is unworthy 

 of cultivation ; but the choice old garden 



Chamaerops Fortune! in a Surrey garden. 



loamy soil. Plant in a sheltered place, so 

 that the leaves may not be injured by winds 

 when they get large. A gentle hollow, or 

 among shrubs on the sides of some 

 sheltered glade, is the best place. C. hu- 

 milis is also hardy at least on sandy soil. 

 CHEIRANTHUS ( Wallflower]. - 

 Beautiful cruciferous plants made familiar 

 by the favourite Wallflower (C. Cheiri\ 

 which [is almost the only species much 



kinds the double yellow, double purple, 

 double orange, dark, &c. are worthy of 

 a place among the finest border plants. 

 These are the varieties most worthy of a 

 place on dry stony banks near the rock- 

 garden, and also on old ruins, on which 

 the common kind is likely to find a home 

 for itself. 



The superb dark crimson-marked kinds 

 grown around London need no description, 



