282 PLANTS PROPER FOR UNDERWOOD, 



though on its first introduction into the north of 

 Scotland, it was so highly valued as to be sold by 

 the nurserymen at half-a-crown the plant. The per- 

 ennial lupine may be transplanted at any season 

 when it is not in flower. When removed to the fo 

 rest, its roots ought not to be weakened by too much 

 dividing, for the sake of multiplying plants. 



The Bachelor's Button, Monk's-hood, Campanu- 

 la, and a variety of other flowers equally common 

 and hardy, will thrive as well in the forest as in the 

 best cultivated garden ; and they all appear more 

 beautiful when we meet with them in the wilder- 

 ness, than when we see them in the most trimly-kept 

 parterre. 



A number of plants which are usually classed 

 among weeds, and are sedulously extirpated where- 

 ever they are found in cultivated land, possess no in- 

 considerable share of beauty, and were they rare exo- 

 tics, would be as carefully cherished as they are now 

 unsparingly destroyed. Such are the broom, the 

 various species of fern, the wild foxglove, &c. Even 

 of the thistle, that sturdiest of all weeds, there are 

 species, which, when in flower, have an imposing 

 appearance, and, however I may be laughed at for 

 the assertion, there are few objects to be met with 

 in natural scenery more romantic than a large heal- 



