g2 ALPINE PLANTS 
shrubs, species that will grow luxuriantly under the dense 
shade of trees, on dry, stony hedge banks, or on wind- 
swept cliffs. We have other diminutive gems that will 
make perfect little specimens in a space six inches square, 
and some that will bedeck the face of a stone wall with 
golden stars, backed by delicately tinted aromatic foliage. 
A representative collection of Hypericums will provide a 
wonderfully varied display of ornate foliage, coloured 
stems and bright flowers, yellow being the prevailing 
colour of the petals, whilst many have strikingly beautiful 
bright red anthers, and in some cases the flowers are 
followed by shining berries of red or brown tints. There 
are upwards of two dozen dwarf-growing kinds that are 
suitable for the rock garden or alpine bed, and a few are 
well worthy of pot culture for the alpine house. Pro- 
pagation for the most part is best effected by means of 
cuttings, rooted under a bell-glass or hand-light, but those 
species that spread by means of underground stems may 
be increased by division. A few kinds that may well form 
the nucleus of a collection, or will constitute an interest- 
ing selection for any ordinary rock garden, are H. coris, 
humifusum, olympicum, polyphyllum, reptans, tomen- 
tosum, and moserianum tricolor, the last named being a 
choice gem, with foliage marked with red and white on 
a bright green ground. 
IBERIS.—The perennial candytuft is a plant that literally 
smothers itself with bloom. Growing with surprising 
freedom in the poorest of soils, the plants develop into 
prostrate or semi-prostrate bushes, and at times the 
masses of flowers are so dense that foliage and stems alike 
