FAMILIAR GARDEN FLOWERS. 
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THE WALLFLOWER. 
Cheiranthus Cheri. 
IE wallflower is a prominent 
member of the cheerful family 
of “old-fashioned” flowers, and 
obviously takes its name from 
the circumstance that it thrives 
on walls, which, indeed, it often 
adorns in a most extravagant and 
delightful manner, making them 
mountains of perfume and beacons 
of fire. I was much struck with 
the glow of an old bastion at 
Amiens in April last, as the sun- 
shine stieamed through its ruddy 
bloom of wallflowers, and I very 
gladly remembered, in connection 
with the charming spectacle, the 
lines of Bernard Barton, in refer- 
ence to the wallflowers of Leiston 
Abbey — 
“ And where my favourite abbey rears on high 
Its crumbling ruins, on their loftiest crest, 
Ye wallflowers, shed your tints of golden dye, 
On which the morning sunbeams love to rest,— 
On which, when glory fills the glowing west, 
