234 The Wild Garden 



PjTUS (continued), 

 scandica (Syme). 

 hyhrida (Linn.). 

 Aucuparia (Gaert.) — Rowan. 

 communis (Linn.)— Pear. 



a. Pyraster (Linn.). 



b. Achras (Gaert.). 



c. cordata (Desv.). 

 Malus (Linn.) — Apple. 



a. acerba (DC). 



b. mitis (Wallr.). 

 Germanica (Linn.) — Medlar. 



The Cloudberry can be grown best in a wet, boggy 

 soil, and is difficult of culture as a garden plant, 

 except in moist and elevated spots. The dewberry, 

 distinguished principally by the glaucous bloom on 

 the fruit when ripe, is of easy culture. Of the 

 Potentillas, P. rupestris, white-flowered, found on the 

 Breiddin Hills in Montgomeryshire, and the large 

 yellow P. alpestris, from the higher limestone 

 mountains, are the best. P. fruticosa, of the north of 

 England, and in Clare and Galway, in Ireland, is 

 a free flowering low bush; and the marsh potentilla 

 (P. Comarum) will do well in boggy ground, if we 

 have it, though it is more distinct than pretty. 



The common willow-herb (Epilobium angustifolium), 

 so showy, and so apt to become a bad weed, is 

 well known. But, in a wood or out-of-the-way spot, 

 where it cannot overrun rarer plants, it is very 

 pretty. Even the botanist, in describing it, says, 

 ' a handsome plant ' — an expression very seldom used 

 by gentlemen who write on English botany. 



