7O ALPINE PLANTS. 
grit should be used as a safeguard against 
the damp, to injury by which this plant is very 
much subject. The dust should be taken out 
of the grit, to prevent any moisture standing 
amongst the foliage. This will keep the plant 
in good order during the resting season. 
Grit-stone must be used instead of limestone, 
as in Draba Maweana. 
PHILESIA BUXIFOLIA (Valdivia). A 
shrubby plant, suitable for the dry side of 
a bog garden. Give hard fibrous peat and 
white sand, with a small portion of rough 
loam mixed well with the peat and sand ; the 
plant should have the full benefit of the sun and 
be sheltered from the north. A little protection 
in winter with a little bracken is very 
beneficial to the buds. It is a good plan 
to layer every second year, pegging each 
shoot close down to the ground, then cover 
over with peat and leaf-mould. It will root 
freely from the stems and soon form quite 
a nice bush. 
PHLOX SUBULATA AND VARIETIES are 
all very useful for the rock garden on the 
front part of the flower border. They do 
well in any ordinary soil with little drainage. 
