DIAPENSIA. 
brightly rosy and of Caesian size, but edged with something of the 
Squarrosan fringe. And of natural hybrids, the following are 
suggested (among many, and for the present) as being of good 
blood :— 
D.x Duftii — Carthusianorum x deltoeides. 
D. x Laucheanus —barbatus x deltoeides. 
D.x Seehausianus arenarius x deltoeides. 
D.x Jaczonis =(deltoeides x swperbus, peach- coloured, in- 
tensely sweet. 
D.xoenipontanus =alpinus x swperbus. 
D. x fallax —alpinus x deltoeides. 
D.» callizonioeides —callizonus x inodorus. 
D. x Domini — plumarius x caesius. 
D.x varians — Seguiert x monspessulanus. 
D.x Mammingorum= Seguiert x inodorus. 
D.x Woodfordii —alpinus x deltoeides. 
To which list it is only necessary to add that anyone who possesses 
any of the better species, can make himself, any day, the possessor of 
hopes more beautiful yet than any of these realities. For the possi- 
bilities of loveliness that lie in front of the alpine Pinks have not yet 
begun to dawn on minds too closely preoccupied with carnations to 
have as yet much foresight of the glory and the value that will attend 
successful races of huge-flowered dwarf mats and edgings and tuffets, 
bred out of DD. alpinus, superbus, Sternbergii, neglectus, caesius, 
callizonus, and inodorus. As the crossing of these is easy, and their 
raising easier still, gold and glory are here unusually ready to hand. 
Diapensia, a race of shrubs so minute as to be smaller than 
almost the smallest plants. All the species are miffy delicate subjects, 
though one is often exhibited under the name of Pywxidanthera bar- 
bulata, to the general applause and the seduction of many, in the 
most beautiful imported sods that are one sheet of wee russet foliage 
quite hidden by the profuse pearl-white rounded stars that sit almost 
close all over it. D. barbulata comes from the pine-barrens of New 
Jersey; but the others, D. lapponica (with a variety D. 1. asiatica), 
and himalaica, are very high-alpine or Arctic species, or both, forming 
close grey-green scabs like domes of hard lichen on the rocks, and 
then, from the pressed mat of their microscopic rosettes, sending up 
stems of an inch or two, each with a rather large and lovely white 
flower: the whole plant having but a remote—or very remote—re- 
semblance to the Saxifrage that says it is like them. All the three 
species should be grown in specially gritty, stony, chippy ground, in a 
soil compounded of roughest sand, to a third part of blended peat and 
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