36 IN A GLOUCESTERSHIRE GARDEN 



small knobs set together, whereof the root is composed, 

 resembling the knaggy eminences of the corale.' ^ 



I can do little more than name a few of the good 

 flowers that make our spring gardens so bright. The 

 Iris orchioides has a brilliant yellow floAver, and is a 

 great acquisition, introduced about twenty years ago 

 from Turkestan ; the different fumitories (Corydalis) 

 make very pretty clumps ; and the two forms, purple 

 and white, of SisyrincJiium grandiflorum, from Van- 

 couver's Island and the Eocky Mountains, are most 

 graceful plants, and come very early. Then the ane- 

 mones are beginning to show their many beauties ; 

 the first here was the rich blue Anemone hlanda from 

 Greece, followed very closely by our own wild yellow 

 anemone {A. ranunmloides), and that by the grand 

 anemones of Southern Europe, A. fulgens and others ; 

 and before the end of the month the pretty Pasque 

 flowers (A. Pulsatilla) will be in full flower, and the 

 yellow A. pahnata, from Hyeres, curious from being 

 the only anemone that has two flowers on a scape. 

 I have named enough now to prove that March has 

 a rich array of flowers of its own ; but as I walk 

 round the garden I note many more, of which I must 

 only give the names — Scillas, blue, white, and red ; 



1 Cole, 1657. 



