CHAPTER X 



The chequered fritillary, or snake's-head Orange balsam 

 Yellow balsam Forget-me-not Mediaeval dread of 

 the scorpion Ground pine Rosemary The flower 

 of remembrance Rue Fennel The serpent's medi- 

 cine Ragwort Hare's-ear The pearly cudweed 

 Milk-thistle Apple Mediaeval pomatum Sea buck- 

 thorn Buck's-horn plantain Echmacea Globularia 

 A fernless rock-garden unthinkable Brake Male fern 

 The gift of invisibility Lady fern Hart's-tongue 

 Royal fern Adder's-tongue Polypody Hard fern 

 Scale fern Black spleenwort Fungi Autumn foliage. 



THE fritillary should find a welcome home 

 amidst our floral treasures, its early flowering 

 and its quaint form of colouring being points much 

 in its favour. The wildling, the only English species 

 of the genus, and the one that we are now com- 

 mending, is the Fritillaria Meleagris, but the 

 gardeners, if we will have it so, will supply us 

 with a rich variety of outlanders. 1 The great bell- 



1 As the charming F. pudica, with bright yellow flowers, 

 a native of the Western States of the great American Union, 

 and the still more brilliant compatriot, the F. recurva, having 

 flowers of a rich chequering of yellow on a scarlet ground. 



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