CHAPTER IX 
CHOICE ALPINE PLANTS FOR THE ROCK 
GARDEN OR ALPINE BED 
HILST for convenience of distinction the second 
selection of plants is placed under the title 
“Choice” Alpine plants, I would hasten to assure my 
readers that it is by no means intended to convey the 
impression that these are all plants that require an excep- 
tional amount of skilful care and special provision to keep 
them alive and healthy, for it may be at once asserted 
that very many of these are subjects that will afford little 
trouble so long as reasonable regard is paid to the char- 
acter of growth, the preference for sun or shade, and in 
the case of the woolly or silvery-leaved plants, to the ad- 
visability of preserving them as far as possible from being 
smothered by grime and smuts during winter. 
In some considerable number of cases a family will 
be found to contain some varieties that are exceptionally 
easy to grow and others that require rather special atten- 
tion or particular environment. Where such is the case 
to a marked degree an effort has been made to clearly 
indicate the differences, but generally speaking it would 
be somewhat misleading to deal with one genus in separate 
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