ONOSMA. 



place, but which I k: .bundant at far lower levels in the burnt 



barrens about Lanslebourg (as in the pine-zone on all formations here 

 and there in the Alps of hem France., and Spain). So that 



doubt, inspired by doleful experience, leads me to fear that the plant 

 may not be of any sufficing hardiness and endurance. It should be 

 I, and tried in hot dry places and moraines and so forth, 

 well in the foregrom) its small proportions and the surpassing 



charm of its rosy flow- and large for the 



plant — little pink-a:. lancing merrily on fine 



stems each by itself above the trailing mat of minute and hairless 

 silver-greyish trefoils with toot] O.fruticosa is a good shrub 



of a yard high with blossoms i pink, which, like all Ononids. 



children of the parched and blazing South, should have, in the garden, 

 a parched and blazing place in another of the same 



kidney is 0. Natrix, being a robustious., sticky herbaceous plant, about 

 _ : t tall, rank and overwhelming, with heads of large and brilliant 



..- flowers. It is uncommon in '.':. Alps, but becomes 



quite frequent further South, in dry banks and roadsides and rail- 

 f the warmer range accuse it of a special 



fad for lime ; but in the Alps it has always seemed to me to ask 

 only heat and a worthless rough place, as for a rare instance, in 

 .A. among the rough herbage on the sun-trodden slopes 

 going up to Evolena. Among the best, however, for the rock-garden 

 is really 0. rotundifolia. which makes a pleasant little bush about a 

 foot high, with lar^ I leaves in i three, among 



which r tO _ pj and lovely Pea-flow-. 



rich pink with apaleo ir own in groups 



of two or three. This may , in the grand woods 



above Lanslebonrg, and, like all On . be raised from 



.ly in yearling i roots of these being 



e long enough, but those of older plants are interminable, woody, 

 and wholly impracticable in their single-trunk': d distaste for disturb- 

 ance. And yet another bushy species is of special value for a sunny 

 place, and breaks fresh ground in colour. T; hich 



stands boldly up and fui. garden with rather crowded yellow 



90UDB. Even fin st of 



all, being a ve: . y bush about 3 or 4 feet high, with all 



.pper axils emitting I a tew flowers till each shoot seems 



a lo<- ■ he Bascavieja of Spain, where 



it abounds in] nth up to about 



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Onosma . Eden, of which we have 



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