CARDAMINE. 89 



The Common Purple Candy-Tuft, the White, and the 

 Sweet-scented are annuals; and, if sown in September, 

 March, April, and May, may be continued in succession 

 throughout the summer. These, as well as the Rock and 

 the Round-leaved Candy-Tufts, will bear exposure to the 

 open air. They must not have more water than is suf- 

 ficient to keep them from absolute drought. 



The Purple has a variety of names : as Candia Thlaspi, 

 Candia Mustard, and Spanish Tuft. The White species, 

 though not mentioned by any of the old botanical writers, 

 is indigenous : it is common to most European countries. 

 The Sweet-scented, the flowers of which are dazzlingly 

 white, is a native of the mountains near Geneva. The 

 seeds should be sown in pots four or five inches in diameter, 

 one in each. 



CAKDAMINE. 



CRUCIFERjE. TETRADYNAMIA SILIQUOSA. 



So called from its taste of cardamoms; also Lady's Smock, from the 

 white sheets of flowers they display on the plashes of water in which 

 they usually grow ; and Cuckoo-flower, from blowing at the time of 

 that bird beginning to sing. French, cresson de pres [meadow-cress] ; 

 passarage sauvage [wild cress]. Italian, cardamindo; nasturzio di 

 prato ; o crescione di prato : both signifying meadow-cress. 



FEW of the species of Cardamine are admitted into 

 gardens. The kind most deserving of a place there is 

 the common Cuckoo-flower, or Lady's Smock, which is 

 common in our meadows, and by brook sides, &c, ; or, ra- 

 ther, the double varieties of this kind should perhaps be 

 selected. This flower has been usually described by the 

 poets as of a silvery whiteness, which shows the season they 

 have chosen for their rural walks to have been a late one ; 

 as, in its natural state, it is more or less tinged with purple, 

 but becomes white as it fades, by exposure to the heat of 



