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galus Vandasii takes a high place, so beautiful, yet so 
robust, and this without loss of delicacy, for his whole 
habit is ferny and graceful, and he never spreads from his 
one crown.! 
The Woundworts, of whom we have a bright specimen 
in Anthyllis vulneraria, of any limestone down, are good, 
easy-going creatures, of whom the rosy Anthyllis montana 
is the best, though the pink and white forms of vulneraria 
sound delightful. But these I have never possessed. 
Of the Clovers, the only one that can fitly enter the 
rock-garden is 7’. alpinum (my manager grows canescens 
with enthusiasm, but I think it gawky and dull); he isa 
dwarf trailer, with immense rosy flowers, very handsome, 
but so obstinately difficult to uproot that I have never 
yet got him satisfactorily acclimatised. You find him on 
the topmost ridges of the Alp, up to the edge of the 
moraine. And a beautiful strip of ground that is—soft 
and trim and firm as any tennis-court—a neat sward 
made up of nothing but flowers—Tvifolium alpinum, 
tiny willows, Oxytropis montana, or pyrenaica, Silene 
acaulis, Azalea procumbens, Gentiana nivalis. Oaytropis 
is represented in gardens by some very lovely, ill-reputed 
species. Pyrenaica, montana, Halleri, and lapponica are 
all delightful dwarfs, with heads of brilliant blue-purple 
flowers. But they are found difficult to acclimatise. Ihave 
succeeded with montana and pyrenaica; the others have 
failed. Oxytropis campestris is taller, fluffy, woolly, and 
dull yellow, rather ugly, whose only interest is that he is 
found on one rock in the mountains near Braemar, in that 
prolific block of country which gives us also Sawifraga 
cernua and Saxifraga rivularis, Lactuca alpina, Gentiana 
nivalis, and Myosotis alpestris. Two North American 
Oxytropids are splendens and hybrida; hybrida seems 
1 Astragalus Vandasii must lose marks; he is not genuinely hardy 
with me: at least he dwindles. 
