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AMPHICOME.—Duarf shrubby rock- 

 plants allied to Incarvillea, with trumpet- 

 shaped flowers and elegant foliage. In 

 A. arguta the flowers are red, coming as 

 drooping racemes during August, and 

 the finely-cut leaves are deeply serrated. 

 A. Emodi is dwarfer and hardier, its pale- 

 red flowers with an orange throat being 

 2 in. long and held erect. Freely pro- 

 duced from August, they are very showy 

 and continue for weeks in a genial 

 autumn. To do well the plants require 

 well-drained soil and a sunny place, with 

 protection from heavy rain and from 

 sharp frost ; a handlight or a tilted pane 

 of glass is often sufficient, but in cold 

 gardens the plants are safer in a green- 

 house. Increase by seeds, or cuttings 

 of the shoots in spring. Bignonia order, 

 Himalaya. 



ANTHYLLIS {Kid?iey Vetch).— 

 Dwarf mountain plants of the Pea 

 family, of which there are some half 

 a dozen species in cultivation. As far 

 as now known, few are worth growing on 

 the rock garden. 



Antliyllis montanus, the Mountain Kidney 

 Vetch, is a very hardy rock-plant ; dwarf, 

 about 6 ins. high, the leaves pinnate, and 

 nearly white with down, the pinkish flowers in 

 dense heads, rising little above the foliage, 

 and forming with the hoary leaves pretty little 

 trailing tufts. I have never seen any alpine 

 plant thrive better on the stiff clay of North 

 London. Resisting any cold or moisture, it is 

 among dwarf plants of the first order of merit 

 as a rock-plant. The variety rubra has darker 

 red flowers. Alps of Europe ; division and 

 seeds. 



A. barba-jovis (Jupiter's Beard) is a 

 shrubby plant of erect growth, with silvery, 

 silky leaves and creamy-yellow flowers in 

 spring. Coming from Spain, it is suited to a 

 hot, dry place in the rock-garden, and in 

 cold places is sometimes grown against a wall. 

 A. erinacea is a singular-looking much- 

 branched, tufled, spiny, almost leafless shrub, 

 about I foot high, with purplish flowers. 



A. Vulneraria ( IVoundwort). — A native 

 plant, is pretty, and well worth growing on 

 dry banks. There are varieties, white and 

 red. 



APIOS TUBEROSA ( Ground Nut).— 

 A graceful tuberous-rooted perennial of 

 twining habit, with leaves cut into five 

 lance-shaped leaflets, and fragrant brown 

 flowers in dense clusters from July to 

 September. It climbs over bushes to a 

 height of 4 to 8 ft., and may be planted 

 to cover a trellis or to roam among the 

 shrubs at the back of a sunny rock- 

 garden, several tubers being planted 

 together to secure the best effect. To do 

 well the soil should be light and warm, 

 with full sun and some shelter ; on cold 

 wet soils the plant is a failure. Increase 

 by seeds whenever possible, but they do 

 not ripen with us, and often fail to do so 

 even in America ; the roots may also be 

 divided, but at some risk. Pennsylvania. 

 The roots are eaten in winter by the 

 American Indians. 



ARCTOTIS GRANDIS. — A hand- 

 some kind from the Cape, with grey or 

 silvery leaves and stems, and showy white 

 flowers 2 in. or more across, with a gold- 

 banded pale mauve centre, and shaded 

 with lilac on the outside. It forms a 

 bushy plant of about 2 ft. high, flowering 

 freely and through a long season, and 

 the long-stemmed flowers are useful for 

 cutting if gathered on first expanding, 

 though they close up each evening. Seed 

 should be sown under glass in early 

 spring, and the seedlings planted in rich 

 light soil and in the hottest part of the 

 garden, as soon as danger from frost is 

 over. Though rejoicing in hot sun, the 

 plants should be freely watered during 

 dry weather. In the warm gardens of 

 the south-west the roots are perennial, 

 but in other parts it is best treated as we 

 have said. 



ARNICA {Lamb''s-skin).—h small 

 group of perennial herbs of the Daisy 

 order, with clustered leaves and neat 

 yellow flowers on long stems. They do 

 well in the rock-garden or border, in 

 open sandy soils. Increase by divisiori, 

 or seed when obtainable. A. Chamissonis 

 from N. America is a pretty plant'of i 

 to 2 ft., with woolly leaves and yellow 



