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to trail throngh shrubs, in rough places, or over stumps, rustic 
bridges, etc., and doubtless sundry other species will in time be found 
equally useful. 
The pretty little Rosy Bindweed that one meets often upon the 
shores of the Mediterranean is here depicted at home in an English 
garden, creeping up the leaves of an Iris in Mr. Wilson’s garden at 
Heatherbank, Weybridge Heath. It is a great privilege we have of 
being able to grow the fair flowers of so many regions in our own, and 
without caring for them in the sense, and with the 
troubles that attend other living creatures in menageries, 
aviaries, etc. This is an advantage that we do not evi- 
dently consider when we put a few 
plants in lines and circles only, ob- 
livious of the infinite beauty and variety 
of the rest. This beautiful pink Bind- 
weed is the representative, so to speak, 
of our own Rosy Field Bindweed in the 
south, but nevertheless it is perfectly 
hardy and free in our own soils. Its 
botanical name is Convolvulus al- 
theoides, 
Marsh Calla, Calla palustris A 
ereeping Arum-like plant, with white 
flowers showing above a carpet of glossy 
leaves, admirable for naturalisation in 
muddy places, moist bogs, on the margins 
of ponds, etc. 
Rosy Coronilla, Coronilia varia. — 
Europe. On grassy banks, stony heaps, 
rough .rocky ground, spreading over 
slopes or any like positions. A very asi ea Sap A A eli 
fine plant for naturalisation, thriving ics, nye . 
in any soil. 
Giant Scabious, Cephalaria.— Allied to Scabious but seldom 
grown. They are worth.a place in the wild garden for their fine 
vigour alone, and the numerous pale yellow flowers will be admired by 
those who do not limit their admiration to showy colours. 
Coral-wort, Dentaria.—Very showy perennials, the purplish or 
white flowers of which present somewhat of the appearance of a stock- 
flower, quite distinct both in habit and bloom, and very rarely seen 
