IRISH GARDENING 



VOLUME XV 



No. 171 



Editor— J- W. Besant. 



A MONTHLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE 



ADVANCEMENT OF HORTICULTURE AND 



ARBORICULTURE IN IRELAND 



MAY 



1920 



The Coming of Spring in the Rock Garden 



By J. HARPER SCAIFE, LL.B., B.L. 



With the first sign of lengtliening dajs tlie generally has a poor constitution and in beauty 

 Kabschia group of Saxifrages begins to stir, is a long way behind them. My original small 

 The earliest one is Haagii, a small flower, deep plants have grown into large vigorous masses. 



Library 



NRW YORK 



BOTANICAL 



Campanula Raineri. A good moraine plant. 



yellow, but sharp in tone, and not particularly 

 attractive unless seen as a good-sized clump 

 with forty or fifty blooms on it. But close on 

 the heels of Haagii come Elizahethce and 

 apicidata, the two sheet anchors of their class 

 for the ordinary alpine gardener. Both are 

 extremely beautiful, the former with red stems 

 and soft, primrose -coloured flowers, and the 

 latter with green stems and flowers of a deeper 

 colour, very floriferous, long lasting and easy 

 to manage ; and, just because they are easy, 

 we run after the latest hybrid novelty, which 



have not been disturbed for ten years, and all 

 the attention they get is a top-dressing of fine 

 grit and leaf-mould carefully worked in 

 amongst the foliage, so that it gets well down. 



liurseriana Gloria and speciosa were bloom- 

 ing during February, but Gloria was at its best 

 in pots, protected from tlie rain. 



Burseriana multi flora, Petraschii and Borijii, 

 all white-flowered, were blooming during 

 February. 



One plant of Pauliiue, which seems to have 

 found a home to its liking at the base of f\ 



