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126 ALPINES AND BOG-PLANTS 
seed a fat, stalwart plant, exactly like a fine common 
species, but with flowers which, though on some specimens _ 
indistinguishable from the ordinary Daisy, are on others of | 
a bright crimson. Now I know the true sylvestris is said 
to be red-flowered, but the question is whether my plant, 
considering its reversions to the ordinary whites of Bellis 
perennis, is more than an unusually bright-coloured strain 
of the common Daisy. Bellium minutum is the treasure 
of this group—a wee, wee plant, like a Daisy looked at 
through the wrong end of a telescope—a most fascinat- 
ing miniature of a thing. This is a rare Levantine, and 
is delicate unless you give him a dry, hot corner, with the 
sharpest possible drainage. 
The Alpine Yarrows and Camomiles are plants I am 
rather conscientious about than enthusiastic. ‘Too often, 
as in Achillea atrata, and its congeners, the white is of 
an unworthy, dirty tone; even in moschata and the 
purer colours, the white is apt to be very hard and dead 
and cold. There is something, too, a little weedy and 
ill-bred about the look of the plants—an astonishing 
thing for species so high-Alpine. But Clavennae and 
Jaborneggi and Kellereri are really beautiful—each with 
silver-white leaves and heads of more or less brilliant 
blossoms. Achillea serbica is a rare new plant, forming 
mats of grey-leaved branches and large flowers of a rather 
cold grey-white. But, among my importation bloomed 
one most lovely silver-leaved plant with larger flowers, 
pure and snowy. I hope to see more of this, if the 
winter has not alienated him beyond reconciliation. As 
for the larger Yarrows, honestly, I find them all ‘ gawky 
weed.’ Mongolica and ptarmica, ‘the Pearl, are very 
we.. for a rough border, so, perhaps, is the red version of 
the common millefolium—if you do not dread the risk 
of a possible pest. But as a class, these plants are far 
too coarse for the choice rock-garden, and not beautiful 
