go ALPINE PLANTS 
good ground for such a name. The blossoms are just 
like miniature single roses, and they thrive and flower 
best when well exposed to all the sun that shines. The 
Helianthemum makes a great amount of roots compared 
with the extent of its branches, and whilst the little bush 
likes to be perched over a prominent rock, where it gets 
hardened and toughened by sun heat and unchecked 
winds, its roots will ramble through a yard of soil to draw 
moisture from beneath the protecting boulders. Naturally, 
such a plant is rather impatient of root disturbance, and 
it is well to plant while young, from pots, and then leave 
alone, that the plant may develop into a spreading bush. 
Cuttings stripped off with a heel, choosing shoots about 
2} inches to 3 inches long, will root in a sandy compost 
under a bell-glass or hand-light, or lower branches of an 
old-established plant may be pressed into the ground 
and held by a stone as shown in the illustration of Veronica 
salicornoides. If this is done in early autumn, the stems 
will have thrown out good roots by spring, and the branch 
may then be severed from the parent plant, lifted with the 
roots intact, and immediately transplanted to permanent 
quarters. Of species there are yellow, pink, red and 
scarlet flowered, whilst hybrids and garden varieties 
further extend the range of colours. Double-flowered 
varieties are also available, and pure white forms with 
conspicuous golden anthers are very effective when grown 
near the brightest reds or scarlets. 
HERNIARIA.—The chief use of Herniaria glabra is its 
suitability for carpeting the ground between erect growing 
plants. Iris reticulata, Orchis foliosa, the smaller fritil- 
