PARK AND CE/nCTERY. i^s 
PAPAVER NAUDICAULE. 
some tuberous rooted, and many such as C. nobilis 
are handsome. 
Finnaria has a great many described species, 
or reputed species, and perhaps 6 or 8 may be 
found with distinctive characters, from Europe, 
Central Asia and extra-tropical Africa. There are 
three species of these plants including a climbing 
one common in the British Islands. Their flowers 
are smaller than Corydalis, purplish red, pink, 
white tipped purple, etc. F. officinalis has become 
naturalized in several parts of this country. They 
affect dry situations, rubbish heaps and such places, 
and to clothe them with light feathery foliage may 
be useful. They are annuals. 
]\Iat}iiola, “Stocks” have 36 species chiefly in the 
Mediterranean region and Eastern Asia. Two are 
found sparingly wild on the British coasts, the gar- 
den stock on the cliffs at Hastings, where it is dis- 
tinctly shrubby, and the great “sea stock” which is 
biennial on the Welsh coasts. These two plants 
ought to be worth the attention of hybridists, see- 
ing that there seems a possibility of their enduring 
our climate on the South Atlantic coast. M. siniiata 
is really quite attractive with its downy leaves and 
purple flowers. M. annua is the type of the annual 
vars. This genus may be regarded as a type of 
the four-petalled arrangement (crucifera) prevail- 
ing so largely in this alliance, and going far to dis- 
tinguish it from the preceding one, but th'ere are 
exceptions and anomalies among most plants. 
CJieirantluis, “wall flower,’’ has 12 species with 
a host of varieties in Europe, Asia, Africa and North 
America. It is represented by 3 species in our 
country. C. asper, C. Menzeisii, and C. pygmmus; 
C, Cheiri, common on old walls in England is a 
shrubby wiry plant with yellow very fragrant flow- 
ers, quite different in aspect and much hardier than 
the improved garden kinds. 
“There may be gaudier on the bower, and state- 
lier on the tree. 
But wall-flower, loved wall-flower, thou art the 
flower for me” 
Nasturtium is a genus including the “Water 
cress” “yellow cress” etc., and not the Tropfeolum, 
or “Indian cress.” 
Arabis is a genus of humble plants principally 
found in the temperate and Arctic regions of the 
Northern Hemisphere. They are mostly white 
flowered perennial or annual plants in 79 species, 
with a far greater number of names. A. albida and 
its variegated leaved variety are frequently seen. 
A. “alpina” is another form. A. blepharophylla 
is Californian, and has rose-purple flowers. A. 
lucida variegata is very extensively used for edging 
spring-flower beds in British gardens. A. verna is 
annual with blue flowers. James Mac Pherson. 
( To be continued). 
Swamp Plants on Dry Ground. — Beauty of the Oak. 
It is remarkable that, with very few exceptions, 
plants which are found naturally in wet or swampy 
places do much better when transplanted in com- 
paratively dry garden ground. What is known as 
the Swamp Magnolia is a good illustration of this. 
Nowhere in its native swamps can any one see as 
large or healthy plants as are to be seen every- 
where in gardens. The explanation is that the 
plants are in obedience to the law of nature that 
everything should be made use of. The swamps 
have to be made use of by nature as well as dry 
land, and it has been so ordered that the seeds of 
certain plants shall only sprout in comparatively 
moist places. The trees have, of course to con- 
tinue their existence where the seeds sprout. Near- 
ly all the swamp plants that are found to grow so 
well in dry ground will not have their seed grow 
under such circumstances. The seeds themselves 
have to be planted in situations similar to that in 
which the plants grow naturally. Swamp maple, 
swamp magnolias, and the native holly are Exam- 
ples of plants found in swampy places, that flourish 
in dryer ground. 
* * * 
Although the great beauty of the oak is in its 
foliage and habit of growth, a large number of them 
have additional charms in the fall of the year, by 
reason of the brilliant color of their foliage. It is 
remarkable that nearly every American oak will 
change to some peculiar shade of brilliancy, from 
lemon to yellow or deep crimson; while the species 
from Europe all die away of a green color. It is a 
characteristic difference between the trees of the 
two countries, in planting, therefore, for colored- 
leaved foliage in the fall, one may take almost any 
species of American oak, feeling sure that it will in 
some degree add an interest to the autumn color- 
ing. — Meehan's Monthly for January. 
