152 The Wall/lower. 



several years by this means, which also ensures flowers early in 

 the spring. The yellow Wallflower is the most conspicuously 

 gay in the shrubbery, but the dark iron-brown is the most es- 

 teemed on the border of the florist. It frequenlly happens that 

 some plants when growing upon rich soil produce flowers with 

 five petals ; it is the seed of these that should be principally 

 saved, as they frequently produce double flowers. April is the 

 season recommended to sow the seeds of the Wallflower, which 

 are soon of sufficient size to transplant out either in a nursery 

 bed or on the spots they are intended to embellish. They should 

 always be planted sufficiently early in the autumn to obtain a 

 good rooting before the frost approaches, and the drier and poorer 

 the ground, the better will these plants endure it ; but when 

 planted in a rich compost of vegetable mould, manure, and loam, 

 and well mixed, they arrive at an unrivalled degree of perfection, 

 particularly when potted in the spring and kept in a north-east 

 aspect, where they receive only about three hours sun each day. 

 These should be housed during the winter, giving them but little 

 water until they begin to show flower-buds, when they may be 

 more freely watered, and if they prove of good kinds they will 

 be found to repay the attention by the beauty and size of their 

 flowers. The perfectly double varieties being destitute of the 

 organs of fructification, produce no seed, but may be propagated 

 by slips planted in the spring, which readily take root if kept 

 moist ; but these seldom make such fine plants or produce so 

 large petals as those raised from the seeds of semi-double flowers. 

 This plant was formerly prized in scorbutic affections ; but as 

 many others much better than itself have supplied its place, it 

 is now only valuable for its beauty and sweet odor. 



" Wearest thou to-day the wreath of fame, 



Oh heed it not, Oh heed it not ! 

 A few brief years thy place and name 



May be alike forgot, 

 And but a lowly flow'ret wave 

 Upon thy un remembered grave. 



" Here ends the semblance — never more 

 t This ruined pile shall rise ; 



But man, a seraph blest shall soar, 



When what is mortal dies, 

 If while earth's changing paths he trod, 

 His heart and hopes were fixed on God." 



