PLANTS WORTH GROWING 121 
exposed to sun and wind which he desires to cover 
with herbage, Coronilla varia is a plant that may 
commend itself to his attention. Semi-prostrate 
stems, densely clothed with vetch-like foliage, are 
thrown out in all directions, and at close intervals 
along every stem flowers are produced in close 
clusters, the colour varying from deep rose to pale 
pink and almost white. Seed or division of clumps 
will provide ready means of increase when desired. 
Corydalis. — Were there no flowers at all to give 
brightness and colour to Corydalis, or Fumitory as 
we have it in English nomenclature every one of 
them would still be decidedly worth growing for 
the sake of their foliage, which is as elegant and 
dainty in form and as restful and pleasing in colour 
as the fronds of the most popular ferns. Given 
shade, moisture with drainage, and just a little 
protection from the rigours of Winter, such as may 
be afforded by a wall, flight of steps, or a clump of 
evergreen shrubs, the fumitories will form flourishing 
colonies in the space of two or three years, and 
their clusters of blossoms are borne with profusion 
over a long period of Spring and Summer. It is 
difficult to understand why so many herbaceous 
collections seem to omit entirely the whole of so 
pretty a genus. Maybe the fact that our wild red 
fumitory is at times troublesome because of its 
free seeding and rapid germination propensities, 
and that the common yellow C. lutea is almost as 
prolific, has brought the two of them into disfavour 
