IS HORTICULTURAL TOUR. 



eotne places, the chalky banks seemed to acquire a blue 

 hue from the profusion of the flowers of succory (Cicho- 

 rium intybus *). In other places the cotton-thistle (Ono- 

 pordon acanthium) held almost exclusive possession ; and 

 for many miles, greater knapweed (Centaurea Scabiosa), 

 celandine (Chelidonium majus), and wild basil (Clinopo- 

 dium vulgare), formed the common weeds of the road-side. 

 The grand and massy ruins of Rochester Castle presented 

 us with a botanical rarity, during a very hurried visit which 

 we paid to it ; in several places, the mouldering walls are 

 covered with single red carnations (Dianthus Caryophyl- 

 lus), whieh were now in flower. We should have been apt 

 to consider these as accidental wanderers from some neigh- 

 bouring garden ; but Sir James Edward Smith, in his 

 Flora Britannica, has not scrupled to describe the plant as 

 indigenous to England, and to mention this castle as a prin- 

 cipal habitat. 



In the course of the day we passed numerous cherry 

 orchards ; sometimes with interspersed rows of Albert-trees 

 trained like bushes. The common kind of cherries called 

 Kentish, as well as the red and black hearts, had al- 

 most all been gathered ; but the morellas still remained on 

 the trees. Apple and pear orchards were also frequent. 

 Some few of the pear-trees had good crops ; but the apple- 

 trees were in general nearly destitute of fruit. Hop planta- 

 tions likewise began to appear ; and they increased in num- 

 ber as we approached Canterbury. The bunches of 

 flowers seemed thinly scattered; but they were yet small, 

 and will probably make a much better appearance three 

 hence. 



das not found a place in LightfOOt's Flora Scotica ; yet it is 

 fit.' 1 'I to it ;i . Celandine, which is admitted. In like manner, Bry- 

 ony is enrolled, and Tw veller\s-joy is excluded; while the claim of both to 



- <.d ai Stotti h plant ii on a par. 



