The Best Wallflowers 
(' Yellow Sweet Sultan ; h.a. ; 18 inches to 2 feet. — 
These are all charming and desirable sweet- 
scented plants, best autumn sown in the open, 
but can also be sown in April. They prefer a 
loamy or calcareous soil. 
Cheiranthus Cheiri ( Wallflower ) ; hardy 
biennial ; 9 inches to 2 feet. — Wallflowers are so 
well known that they need not be described. 
There are many garden varieties, but among 
the best are some good strain of Blood-red and 
the shorter kind named Vulcan, of intense red- 
brown colour and bushy habit. The old Purple 
should not be neglected ; it is better in some 
combinations of plants than the redder variety 
obtained from it, named Ruby Gem ; Fire King 
is a gorgeous colour and Yellow Phoenix a fine 
yellow. Primrose Dame is a pretty pale yellow ; 
other colourings of the single Wallflowers will be 
found in trade lists. The early Paris kinds are 
valuable. The double German kinds, especially 
those of full and pale yellow colourings, are 
extremely desirable in the spring garden ; their 
massive spikes are of fine appearance and they 
last longer than any other spring flower. Wall- 
flowers should be sown out of doors in May, 
preferably in rather poor soil trodden firm ; this 
keeps the plants compact and of strong constitu- 
tion. They are best put out in any damp 
weather in July if the place for spring flowers is 
dedicated to them only, but if they have to 
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