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The Wild Garden 



maritima, the sweet Alyssum, and Dentaria bulbifera, 

 rare, and curious ; the Ladies' Smock, and its double 

 variety; Arabis petraea, a sweet dwarf alpine; the 

 common Wallflower, and the Single Rocket (Hesperis 



matronalis) and the Sea- 

 kale of our shores are 

 worth growing. 



All the British Helian- 

 themum or Sun Roses, 

 and the annual kind 

 H. guttatum of the 

 Channel Islands, are 

 pretty plants. Many do 

 not know we have a list 

 so full as this of native 

 kinds : — 



Helianthemum. 



guttatum (Mill). 

 Breweri (Planch.). 

 marifolium • ( Mill) . 



b. vineale (Pers.). 

 Chamrndstus (Mill). 

 poUfoUum (Mill). 



Kative Sun BOBe in Somerset Combe. 



These of course apart from the garden forms of the 

 common sun rose which are numerous. Of the violets, 

 in addition to the sweet violet, which should be grown 

 on a north aspect, V. lutea and V. tricolor will be found 

 the most distinct and worthy of culture. Apart from the 

 many garden varieties there are the white and various 

 wild forms. The interesting little Milkworts, which 



