FLORA DOMESTICA. 



" Bright tulips, we do know 



You had your coming hither ; 

 And fading time does show, 

 That ye must quickly wither. 



" Your sisterhoods may stay, 



And smile here for your hour 

 But ye must die away, 

 E'en as the meanest flower. 



" Come virgins then, and see 



Your frailties, and bemoan ye 

 For, lost like these, 'twill be 

 As time had never known ye." 



VALERIAN. 



VALERIANA. 



VALEIUANE,E. TRIANJDRIA MONOGYNI.A, 



The derivation of this name is uncertain. French, la valeriane. 

 Italian, valeriana. 



THE Valerians vary in size from three or four feet to as 

 many inches ; their flowers are commonly red or white, 

 but. there are a few species with blue, and with yellow 

 flowers. 



The seeds may be sown of the annual kinds, and the 

 roots parted of the perennial, in spring or autumn. Some 

 of them, as the Red and the Alpine Valerians, thrive best 

 on rocks, old walls, or buildings ; the seed being scattered 

 in the joints and chinks. 



The Pyrenean species likes shade and a moist soil : the 

 Garden Valerian likes moisture too, and plenty of room, as 

 it spreads fast. 



All the kinds must be kept moderately moist. Some 

 give the Alpine kinds a poor stony soil covered with moss, 

 in imitation of their natural place of growth, on mossy 

 rocks, where the snow lies six or seven months in the year. 



