REST HARROW. Ononis Spinosa.

STRAWBERRY CLOVER. Trifolium fragiferum.

YELLOW VETCHLING. Lathyrus aphaca. GORSE. Ulex Europaeus.

WILLOW HERB. Epilobium angustifolium. EVENING PRIMROSE. Oenothera biennis

Dutch clover is very largely cultivated, and is now often used as the representative of the true shamrock, or three-leaved plant of Ireland. The original mystic plant was doubtless the Oxalis, of which we have. before spoken. Leaves of this character have from a very remote period been regarded with superstitious veneration.

"The holy trefoil's charm "

was considered potent against all manner of evil.

COMMON DOG ROSE.

ROSA CANINA.

Books have been written on Roses alone, and when we think of the numbers of varieties of this beautiful plant, and remember that they all originally sprang from the simple rose of our hedges, we feel especially drawn to it as the progenitor of so much delicious beauty. All roses belong to the natural order Rosaceæ, and there are but few people who are ignorant enough to mistake a rose, whether wild or cultivated, for any other flower. Its very scent is more fragrant and distinctive than that of any other flower, and the soft velvety texture of its petals, its delicate and varied. hues, all combine to make it the Queen of Flowers. Even the modest little hedge-rose, so great a favourite with children, and with all who have the simple,