1 6a The Wild Garden. 



and is now, I think, published by Dulau, of Soho. 

 This is particularly useful, because it gives a full 

 list of all the species, and by means of numbers 

 indicates their comparative prevalence. The com- 

 pilers adopted Mr. Hewett Watson's division of 

 Britain into a number of botanical districts, and 

 after the name of each species a number is placed, 

 which tells the number of districts in which that 

 particular plant is found. Thus on the first page, 

 "i8" is placed after the name of the Marsh- 

 marigold, indicating that this strong and beautiful 

 herb is found in the eighteen districts, or, in other 

 words, that it is very common. The Seakale 

 (Crambe maritima) is put down as an inhabitant 

 of twelve districts ; and that pretty alpine plant 

 the Yellow Draba (D. aizoides), is marked "I.," 

 because it is only found wild in one district 

 in Britain. 



I think it very desirable that those who wish to 

 work at the collecting and culture of wild flowers 

 should provide themselves with one or more of these 

 lists, simply for convenience sake, as on them may 

 be at once marked the kinds we have or want ; and 

 I myself have found them very useful to effect 

 exchanges, marking the species I had and could 

 spare, and sending the list to friends in distant 



