66* VARIETIES OF HEARTS-EASE. [APRIL. 



is over: it is a plant I admire, as well on ac- 

 count of the leaf, as because all plants in blos- 

 som at this season of the year are valuable. 



One of my greatest favourites is the hearts- 

 ease, of which I have twelve very distinct varie- 

 ties. I have planted an edging of these, by di- 

 viding the patches into separate plants, round a 

 border I lately made for rock plants, in a very 

 dull corner of my garden, where nothing grew 

 before but dark brown trefoil. 



With the aid of a few large stones, clinkers, 

 and flints thrown carelessly about, and the in- 

 tervals filled with fine mould, and planted with 

 different sorts of dwarf cistus, houseleeks, peri- 

 winkle, the small variegated leaved sort of snap- 

 dragon, that you must have seen on old walls, 

 and the last, not least in my estimation, the 

 modest Houstonia cc&rulea, which our poets 

 have celebrated, I have made a very pretty 



