66 ALPINE PLANTS. 
CE NOTHERA MARGINATA or EXIMIA 
(California). This plant loves a dry, warm 
bottom, either on limestone or deep sandy 
loam. The place must be well drained. It 
runs freely in the ground; the young shoots 
are very apt to get pulled off, as sometimes 
the young growth will make its appearance 
quite ft. away from the original place, 
thus the whole plant is often destroyed. If 
planted out in the border, a hole should be 
made 2ft. wide and 18in. deep; fill in gin. of 
drainage, add a few inches of rough loam, fill the 
hole with pure river sand, then put your plant 
in the centre of the hole. It will live thus 
for years and increase and flower freely. Of 
course, this is only if you have a damp, 
clayey sub-soil. 
OMPHALODES LUCILIZ (Asza Minor). A 
most interesting and rare Alpine, and a plant 
that most people find difficult to grow. It is 
a plant that will not stand coddling, and if 
this is attempted it soon dies. The most 
suitable place is the north-east side of the 
rockery, where it can be sheltered from the 
south sun and north wind. The morning sun 
suits it, say up to ten o’clock. Use a mixture 
