Tfr WALLFLOWER. 3 



known by the same name, and therefore we cannot always 

 determine with precision the flowers referred to when 

 gillivor or gilloflower occurs in our older literature. The 

 Latin name, Cheiranthns, means " hand-flower/' and it is 

 most appropriate. 



The cultivation of this flower is an extremely simple 

 affair. The seeds should be sown on a plot of newly-dug 

 ground in the month of May; and during rainy weather in 

 July, the plants should be transplanted into rows a foot 

 apart, and the plants six inches apart in the rows. In 

 September or October they should be lifted with care and 

 be at once planted where they are to flower, and in the 

 months of April and May following they will be gay 

 enough. The best of the double kinds is the sulphur 

 yellow, which may be grown into a tree of considerable 

 size, and if planted in a dry sunny situation will last any 

 number of years, and may, indeed, become the pride of the 

 garden. To multiply this variety, cuttings are taken, 

 when they are full-grown but have not become woody, 

 and being planted firmly in sandy soil and kept shaded or 

 covered with a hand-glass, soon make roots, and in the 

 following spring they may be planted out. Well-grown 

 double walls make fine pot plants for the conservatory, and 

 with a little careful forcing may be had in bloom at the 

 turn of the year, and will continue flowering until mid- 

 summer. The conditions of success are to be found in the 

 employment of a gritty and somewhat calcareous soil, and 

 affording the plants at all times plenty of light and air. 

 Darkness and damp are death to wallflowers. 



" Flower in the crannied wall, 

 I pluck you out of the crannies ; 

 Hold you here, root and all, in my hand. 



