WAHLEXBERGIA. 



8 inches high, one to five from a rosette, and each bearing one delicate 

 fl >wer, vase-shaped, of white or blue, about an inch or more across. 

 This is the garden-plant that passes under the name of W. saxicola ; 

 it Las a minute alpine form, not more than an inch high, with droop- 

 ing bells, called W. a. pygmaea. It is a variable, but always lovely 

 thing : with its very fine threadlike stems, either tall with large white 

 diaphanous vases, or small with little blue ones ; and thrives in light 

 open loam in the sun, but not parched, where it flowers all through the 

 summer, and should have tufts taken off and potted up for safety in 

 autumn, in case an English winter should be too much for this won- 

 derfully accommodating New-Zealander. 



W. cartilaqinm is a small perennial from New Zealand, not more 

 than 3 or 4 inches tall, with short, sturd}~ stems, each bearing one big 

 sweet-scented white blossom, cloven into five lobes to the base, and no 

 longer than the enclosing segments of the calyx. The leaves are all 

 gathered at the base of these in rosettes ; the} 7 are broadly, bluntly 

 spoon-shaped, quite toothless, about an inch long, and especially 

 thick and leathery, with a yet further thickened white rim of cartilage 

 at the edge that makes W. aJbomarginata more than ever a thief in its 

 deceitful name. This, like all others of this Australasian race, should 

 have choice, light, gritty soil, with plenty of stone, plenty of water, 

 and plenty of care. 



Tr. congesta is densely tufted, instead of loose in the arrangements 

 of its rambling rosettes. The leaves, too, are rounder in their outline, 

 and the flowers are smaller than in the larger types of the last, about 

 half an inch wide, pale-blue cups on frail stems of an inch or two. 

 -sential personality rests in the proud fact that its seedpod is 

 always round, instead of obconical as in the last. 



W. gracilis. See If. vincaeflora. 



W. multicaulis, Benth., has sometimes been called Campanula 

 capillar is. It is a perennial, with a great number of erect stems a 

 foot or two in height, usually each carrying one smooth small bloom, but 

 sometimes branching so as to carry more. Though their multitude 

 and the cloudy effect of the slender-stemmed bush has its value, they 

 are but little, and the plant is hardly worth pining for, even were it 

 hardy like the rest, which can hardly be hoped, as it comes from Aus- 

 tralia. W. m. dispar is a no more useful variety of the species. 



W. saxicola, DC. (the names are endlessly confused in gardens ; 

 no less of this species than of the next ; and solid earth gives way be- 

 neath the feet of the venturesome, when Cheeseman's Manual is found 

 no longer a sure guide). This is a perennial, with about a dozen 

 obovate, spoon-shaped tiny leaves, perfectly smooth and green on 



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