CHAPTER VII 
ALPINE PLANTS IN POTS AND PANS 
IMPLE as the culture of the freer growing alpines may 
be, and modest though their requirements are, it 
still remains possible that some who delight in them and 
would fain grow a collection of rock plants are deterred, 
perhaps because they fear the cost of such rockeries as are 
generally described, or maybe because penned up in the 
heart of a great town the tiny garden is overrun by destruc- 
tive cats, and the plants are smothered with grime, smuts 
and sooty deposits that fall with every winter rain. Still, 
the enthusiast need not despair, for an ordinary garden 
frame covered with a glazed light will afford accommodation 
for quite a large number of alpines that will thrive to 
perfection in pots and pans, the protection of the light serving 
to ward off the dirt and smuts of winter ; whilst in summer, 
when unrestricted fresh air is required, offending cats can 
be warded off by covering the frame with a screen of wire- 
netting. 
Many amateur gardeners possess an unheated greenhouse, 
and whilst in summer the structure may prove useful for 
growing tomatoes, summer flowering plants such as Begonias 
and perhaps Chrysanthemums for autumn, the winter is 
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