“HERBACEOUS PLANTS. 253° 
quaintness of form is deserving of attention: and on this 
principle, Allium fistulosum (the common Welsh onion) 
may be allowed to figure in a flower border. At the same 
time, it must be admitted that such expedients should be 
employed with reserve. No handsome plant should be re- 
jected because it is common, nor any ill-favored one intro- 
duced merely because it is scarce, The flower-gardener 
should have a small nursery frame for the propagation of 
the finer plants, so as to have at hand a stock, to be trans- 
ferred into the borders as often as required. 
Numerous specimens of such showy plants as Verbena 
Brillii, atro-sanguinea, and Mont Blane Phlox Drummondii, 
with Scarlet Geraniums, Petunias, Salvias, and Fuchsias, 
may easily be kept over winter, in a green-house or vinery, 
in the very small pots called “thumbs,” ready. to be 
plunged in the open borders in May ; where they uniformly 
bloom with much greater vigor and brilliancy than under 
glass. 
We shall here enumerate merely the names of a few of 
the most ornamental flowers, adapted to the British flower 
garden.* 
Vernal Herbaceous Plants.—Helleborus niger, lividus; Eranthus 
hyemalis; Hepatica triloba, var.; Primula vulgaris var., veris, elatior, mar- 
ginata, helvetica, nivalis, viscosa, integrifolia, cortusoides; Cortusa Ma- 
thioli ; Soldanella alpina, Clusii; Viola odorata double-flowered, tricolor, 
biflora, altaica ; Dodecatheon Meadia vars. ; Orobus vernus; Adonis ver- 
nalis; Omphalodes verna; Corydalis lutea, longiflora; Sanguinaria cana- 
densis; Iris pumila; Anemone #pennina, Halleri, pulsatilla ; Sisyrinchium 
grandiflorum. ; 
Vernal Plants.—Gentiana verna, acaulis. Saxifraga oppositifolia. 
Genista Scorpius. Hepatica Americana. Dondia epipactus. Orobus ver- 
* Tt must be borne in mind by the American floriculturist that ‘the times 
and seasons here referred to are those of England, and will be found not pre- 
cisely to correspond with the precise times of planting in any one part of the 
United States. 
