12 o BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS 



the winter nearly dormant, and quickly make strong plants in 



spring. 



The following are beautiful varieties of Violas : 



*Accushla t white and blue. 



A. /. Rowberry, yellow. 



* Archibald Grant, plum blue. 



*Ardwell Gem, primrose. 



*Blue Cloud, white, blue edge. 



^Bullion, deep yellow. 



*Countess of Hopetoun, white. 



Crieffie Smith, black and lavender. 



Councillor Waters, purplish crimson. 



Duchess of Argyll, white, purple edge. 



General Baden Powell, orange. 



Hector Macdonald, white, purple edge. 

 */. B. Riding, mauve. 

 *Mauve Queen, mauve. 

 Mrs. C. McPhaily heliotrope. 

 Minnie J. Ollar, cream, edged purple. 

 *Rolph, blue. 

 *Snowflake, white. 

 *True Blue, dark blue. 

 * William Neil, rosy lavender. 

 *W. P. A. Smith, cream, heliotrope 

 edge. 



Those marked * are particularly free-flowering and good for the garden. 



Wallflowers. A delicious old-fashioned flower is Cheiranthus 

 Cheirii, popularly known as the Wallflower. Who does not know 

 it? Who does not love it? Its spicy fragrance greets us in 

 spring, and reminds us of the cottage gardens into which we 

 loved to peep in childhood's days. It is an old, old flower, but 

 just as great a favourite with us as it was with the gardeners of 

 past days. Its love for stony cliff sides, and for the crumbling 

 walls of old ruins, is well known. There it gets what appears to 

 be a precarious foothold, and flowers most cheerfully 



"And where my favourite abbey rears on high 

 Its crumbling ruins, on their loftiest crest, 

 Ye Wallflowers, shed your tints of golden dye, 

 On which the morning sunbeams love to rest." 



Thus sings Barton. On various cliff sides by the sea, notably 

 under the far-famed Leas at Folkestone, the Wallflowers form 

 colonies as happy and as sweet as those on ruined walls. They 

 have probably been planted there by the town gardeners some 

 time or other. In olden days the Wallflower used to be called 

 the "wall-gillyflower," but this was abbreviated to Wallflower, 

 just as "stock-gilly flower" was reduced to plain "Stock." 



Of course the Wallflower is not restricted to culture on walls 



