See also:

• CANDYTUFT (Iberis amara, so called from Iberia, i.e. Spain, where many species of the genus are native, and amara, bitter, i.e. in taste)

CANDYTUFT (Iberis amara, so called from Iberia, i.e. See also:

• SPAIN
• SPAIN (Espana)

Spain, where many See also:

• SPECIES

species of the genus are native, and amara, See also:

• BITTER, KARL THEODORE FRANCIS (1867– )

bitter, i.e. in See also:

• TASTE (from Lat. taxare, to touch sharply; tangere, to touch)

taste)  , a small See also:

• ANNUAL

annual See also:

• HERB (Lat. herba, grass, food for cattle, generally taken to represent the Old Lat. forbea, Gr. 4op(3i1, pasture, <0p/3Ew, to feed, Sans. bharb, to eat)

herb (natural See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order See also:

• CRUCIFERAE

Cruciferae) with See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

white or purplish See also:

• FLOWERS, ARTIFICIAL

flowers, the See also:

• OUTER

outer petals of which are longer than the See also:

• REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest . It is a native of western See also:

• EUROPE

Europe and found See also:

• WILD, JONATHAN (c. 1682-1725)

wild on dry See also:

• SOIL

soil in cultivated ground in the centre and See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

east of See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England . This and several other See also:

• SPECIES

species of the genus are known as See also:

• GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

garden See also:

• PLANTS

plants, and are of easy culture in See also:

• ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary garden soil if well exposed to See also:

• SUN
• SUN (0. Eng. sonne, Ger. sonne. Fr. soleil, Lat. sol, Gr. ijXior, from which comes helio- in various English compounds)

sun and See also:

• AIR (from an Indo-European root meaning " breathe," " blow ")
• AIR, or ASBEN

air . The See also:

• COMMON

common See also:

• CANDYTUFT (Iberis amara, so called from Iberia, i.e. Spain, where many species of the genus are native, and amara, bitter, i.e. in taste)

candytuft of gardens is I. umbellata, a See also:

• HARDY, ALEXANDRE (1569?-1631)
• HARDY, SIR THOMAS DUFFUS (1804-1878)
• HARDY, SIR THOMAS MASTERMAN
• HARDY, THOMAS (1840- )

hardy annual, native of See also:

• SOUTHERN

southern Europe, and known in a number of varieties differing in See also:

• COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour of flowers . I. coronaria (See also:

• ROCKET

rocket candytuft) has See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long dense heads of white flowers and is also an annual . Some species have a shrubby growth and are See also:

• EVERGREEN

evergreen perennials; the best-known is I. sempervirens, a native of southern Europe, a much-branched plant about a See also:

• FOOT

foot high with long racemes of white flowers . I. gibraltarica is a showy, handsome See also:

• HALF

half hardy evergreen .