WALLFLOWER. 



Cheiranthus Cheiri. Nat. Ord., 

 Cruciferce. 



,HE wallflower in its cultivated 

 state will, no doubt, be perfectly 

 familiar to all our readers, but 

 it may not have been the 

 happiness of all to see it in 

 its native habitat, the crumb- 

 ling walls of some old ruin. 

 While most plants delight in a 

 good body of soil, others seem 

 to thrive under the most ad- 

 verse conditions, and amidst 

 the cracks in the masonry of 

 some old abbey, where we should 

 expect the lack of earth, the in- 

 sufficiency of moisture, the scorching 

 sun, and the fierce rush of the breeze 

 to render existence impossible, we often find a perfect 

 garden. We have in such positions seen the wallflower, 

 the bugloss, the snapdragon, harebells, the stonecrop, and 

 even such plants as the elder and the dog-rose, growing 

 in wild profusion. To this short list many other flowers 

 might be added, and the stone fences that are so common 

 in some parts of the country yield equally "happy hunting- 

 grounds " for the botanist and lover of plants. Amongst 

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