234 SHRUBBERY FLOWERS. 



long the gayeties of summer. The chief is the 

 hollyhock, not over nice, majestic, long flowering, 

 and of many colours. The black, not truly named, 

 is rich as it is rare; and for this reason some notice 

 of the hollyhock shall be given in the alphabetical 

 list. The giant sunflower, too coarse for beds or 

 borders, is excellent to the amount of a dozen, at 

 long distances, amongst laurels. It must have air, 

 that it may branch out, and carry many heads on 

 a treelike stem. More of this also will be found 

 in the list above named. The most convenient 

 thing for filling all vacuities, and giving honey 

 sweetness to the garden, is wallflower. Late in 

 autumn, or after the spring digging, proceed all 

 over the ground with choice plants, very dark, 

 called bloody, some double, and the whole as plen- 

 tiful as a crop of greens. Not individually fine, 

 this plant owes its good eflect to extent, and to the 

 quantity of breeze which it perfumes. To have it 

 good of its kind may be worthy of a separate no- 

 tice. Several of the larger species of iris agree well 

 with the neighbourhood of shrubs, and thrive in 

 the shade. The lily-of-the-valley, shooting early 

 its fine dark leaf, rolled like a cigar, and shortly 

 after its modest snowy flower, may be allowed to 

 run thickly over a square yard or two, beneath a 

 spreading laurel, which may be slightly pruned for 

 its bower. Queen-of-the-meadow, double or single 

 the latter only is scented agrees with the shade; 

 and also sweet woodruff, remarkable, when dried in 

 paper, for the time it retains the odour of new- 



