AETHIOPAPPUS PULCHERRIMUS. 
away on a small stalk that sometimes curves downwards. General in 
the Alps of Cappadocia, Cilicia, and Armenia. 
Ae. stylosum is a treasure of Lebanon, with few short stems only 
2 or 3 inches high, clothed in rather large narrow egg-shaped foliage 
more or less pointed, and the lowest with a quite short foot-stalk. The 
big rose-pink blossoms are gathered in a head, and from each pro- 
trudes a long style. 
Ae. subulatum, a bushling so minute as to be only a tight tuft of 
very short very leafy stems, the leaves fat, almost cylindrical in section, 
and the flowers rather small. This species has a likeness to Ae. 
schistosum, and comes from Argaeus in Cappadocia. 
There are, of course, many others in this race, including a large 
supply of weeds and annuals unworthy of comment.’ The above 
choice, however, covers most of the more valuable alpine species, 
which, for sunny moraine or rock-work, are all delights of the very 
first rank. 
Aethiopappus pulcherrimus deserves its name (but some- 
times has that of Centaurea), for this hardy Caucasian perennial is a 
very handsome herbaceous plant with fine deep-cut dark foliage, grey 
beneath, and ample glowing Sweet-Sultans carried aloft on stiff stems 
throughout the later summer. As the stem attains some 3 feet in 
height, it is not indicated for the choicer corners of the rock-garden, 
but makes a fine show in wilder places, thriving readily in free light 
soil, and easily divided. Ae. Balansae, however, lives on the granitic 
high Alps of Lazic Pontus, at some 9000 feet, a tuft of undivided 
pointed leaves, all white with wool, and its 6-inch stems carry 
great starry blooms of yellow. 
Agapanthus.—Though these glorious blue Amaryllids are justly 
beloved as tub-plants to stand on terraces in summer, it is not suffi- 
ciently realised that three species of the race at least are perfectly 
hardy and extremely valuable in the large rock-garden, where, if 
planted in good very deep loam, in a sheltered and exalted position, 
they increase from year to year their sheaves of glossy strap-shaped 
foliage, and glorify the duller days of late summer with their loose 
heads of clear and lovely blue. The best of all is A. intermedius, the 
most beautiful alike in habit and clarity of tone; then comes A. 
Mooreanus minor, quite sufficiently attractive itself, with tall graceful 
2-foot stems and loose showers of china-blue trumpets. Taller, and 
with a specially delightful head of blossoms splaying out and down, 
each blue flower on a longer finer footstalk, is A. Wedllighti, which, 
though as hardy as the rest, is so rare and noble as to deserve being 
indulged with an eiderdown of cinders in climates where the winter 
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