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NATURE NOTES. 
kept by White. The “comparative view” will be found in 
the excellent reissue of Jardine’s edition of Selborne, lately 
published by Messrs. Routledge in their Popular Library. — 
Ed. N. N.] 
A WILD GARDEN AT TWICKENHAM. 
Y wild garden is at present, I fear, in a very neglected 
state, owing to my frequent absence from home during 
the last few months, but in the five years it has been 
in existence it has contained upwards of a hundred 
species of wild plants, mostly collected by myself from all parts 
of England. Of course I am careful never to take rare plants, 
or many of the same kind unless growing in great abundance. 
Several specimens that have grown and flowered here are of 
interest, as having been brought from places of such very 
different soil ; especially is this the case with the sea-side plants. 
I have had the Yellow Horned Poppy ( Glaucium Inteum ) brought 
from the cliffs at Swanage, thrive and flower for three years. 
Sea Holly ( Eryngium maritimum), which I found growing in loose 
sea sand on the shore between Penzance and Marazion, lived for 
two years in my garden. Sea convolvulus ( Convolvulus Soldanella) 
from North Devon for several months; this also was taken 
from the sea-sand. Some Southernwood from the salt marshes 
of Herne Bay has grown very much in the five years it has 
been here. The Sea Michaelmas Daisy ( Aster Tripolitan ) is 
another plant which comes up every year, but it has not 
flowered the last two, as I cannot keep it free from the snails. 
Other plants which I take a pride in, and which are now well 
established are Evergreen Alkanet (Ancktisa sempervirens) from 
Falmouth; Columbine (A qtiilegia vulgaris), also from Falmouth; 
Lesser Periwinkle {Vinca minor) from Tynemouth ; Butterfly Or- 
chids ( Habenaria bifolia) from Dursley; Vernal Squill (Sctlla verna) 
from cliffs near the Lizard, Cornwall; Thrift (Armeria maritima), 
from the Land's End; Mealy Guelder-rose {Viburnum Lantana) 
from Swanage ; Snowflake {Leucojum mstivum) from an island near 
Henley; Cornish Money-wort {Sibthorpia europcea) which came up 
among some ferns I had brought from Cornwall. The Money- 
wort I put in the greenhouse during the winter, and it grows so 
fast, that from one small piece I have about forty pots, besides 
often using it as an edging to baskets, etc. Cornish Heath 
{Erica vagans) I have tried several times to grow, but have never 
yet succeeded in doing so, nor have I been successful with the 
common varieties of heather, though a clump of pure white 
heather {Erica cincrea), brought lately from North Wales, gives 
promise of living, but I have it at present under glass. 
Among plants found in this neighbourhood, I have Kingcup 
{Caltha palustris ) and Meadow Saxifrage {Saxifraga granulata), 
