JULY WILD FLOWERS. . SSi 



4. The most interesting method for growing 

 Ferns in dwellings is in the Wardian Case, 

 whether in the soil or with miniature rock- 

 work introduced, a most attractive ornament 

 for the drawing-room, especially during those 

 frosty r^ionths in which King Hiems reigns 

 supreme and scowls at parterres and pleasure 

 grounds. 



The Wardian Case is susceptible of assum- 

 ing any shape or size ; it was invented about 

 1830, by an enthusiastic London window gar- 

 denet— N. 13. Ward. 



Mr. Paxton's Handbook contains ample de- 

 tails on all these points. Rockeries, Rooteries, 

 Wardian Cases, have now been introduced with 

 success for several years at the Sillery and 

 Ste. Foye Villas and at Mr. Hy. Atkinson's 

 residence at Etchemin. 



July is the month to seek in swampy grounds 

 the Purple -Fringed Orchis — the spike of 

 which resembles a stately hyacinth ; the 

 sickly Henbane growing one or two feet high, 

 with its veined flower, somewhat like that of 

 the Potato — in the Cove Fields and often on 

 the Glacis ; that medicinal plant, the Hem- 

 lock, the fatal juice of which filled the fatal 

 cup of Socrates, a tall plant like Parsley with 

 a spotted stem ; the Willow Herb, called in 

 Canada the Fire Weed, a splendid plant 

 "growing from two to six feet high, branch- 



