96 FAMILIAR GARDEN FLOWERS. 



fortable country towns where window flowers are much 

 better managed than in any of our great cities, the glaucous 

 coronilla is called the seven-leaved crown ; and there is a 

 companion plant, equally prized with it, the C valenihui, 

 which is called the nine-leaved crown. A somewhat com- 

 mon garden shrub in France, but not often seen in this 

 country, is the scorpion senna {C. emerws), which flowers 

 in April. This has been employed to furnish a dye that 

 was at one time valued as a substitute for indigo. But 

 vegetable dyes are at a discount, and even indigo may be 

 superseded by coal-tar. 



The coronilla may have enjoyed fame as a garland 

 flower, but its name represents the likeness to a garland or 

 crown that is seen in the disposition of its flowers. 



