T74 The Wild Garden. 



pretty perennial of a clear yellow, and thrives well 

 at the bottoms of walls and such positions. Some 

 might care to grow the large Opium Poppy (P. 

 somniferum) ; its finer double varieties are doubt- 

 less very good, but these can scarcely be called 

 British. The Horned Poppy of our sea shores is 

 distinct and curious, and on that account might be 

 grown in a garden ; but it must be treated as an 

 annual or biennial. Corydalis solida is a pleasing 

 and dwarf spring flower, scarcely a native, or very 

 rare ; and the seakale, really ornamental when 

 in flower, is well worthy of a place on a wild 

 bank. 



In the natural order Cruciferze, Thlaspi alpestre 

 (a pretty Alpine), Iberis amara (a fine white 

 annual), Draba aizoides (a rare and beautiful 

 Alpine), Koniga maritima, the sweet Alyssum, and 

 Dentaria bulbifera, rare, pretty, and curious ; Car- 

 damine pratensis, the ladies' smock, and its double 

 variety ; Arabis petraea, a sweet dwarf alpine ,; 

 the common wallflower, and the single rocket 

 (Hesperis matronalis) will be found the most orna- 

 mental, and all of them are worth growing. Any 

 Flora of the United Kingdom will tell their habitats. 

 None of the mignonettes found in Britain are worthy 

 of cultivation. 



