But as a garden plant the only advice to be given is to keep it out of the garden by every means. In good cultivated ground it becomes a sad weed if once allowed a settlement. The Himalayan Böhmerias, however, are handsome, but only for their foliage; and though we cannot, perhaps, admit our roadside Dead Nettles, which however are much handsomer than many foreign flowers which we carefully tend and prize, yet the Austrian Dead Nettle (Lamium orvala, "Bot. Mag.," v. 172) may be well admitted as a handsome garden plant.
FOOTNOTES:
[176:1] This a modern reading; the correct reading is "metal."
"Si forte in medio positorum abstemius herbis
Vivis et Urtica."—Horace, Ep. i, 10, 8.
"Mihi festa luce coquatar Urtica."—Persius vi, 68.
[178:1] "L'ortie s'établit partout dans les contrées temperées à la suite de l'homme pour disparaitre bientôt si le lieu on elle s'est ainsi implanteè cesse d'etre habité."—M. Lavaillee, Sur les Arbres, &c., 1878.