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green cushion is thickly scattered during midsummer a 
mass of clear rose-coloured blossoms, with a yellow eye 
in the centre of each little flower. A larger and richer 
coloured variety is named eximea. Either of these will 
thrive if planted in porous gritty soil in a position where 
the full force of midday sun is broken by a plant of taller 


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A PROTECTOR FOR PLANTS THAT DISLIKE WINTER’S WET. 
The glass is held by a “Cloche Clip” supported on a stout rod. 
bushy growth, or by a friendly boulder of stone on the 
southern side. This plant will divide without difficulty, 
during September. A. foliosa is one that has no bad traits 
of character. It has grey foliage, but it is robust and 
strong, capable of looking after itself. Its flowers are of 
a rosy lilac, and are borne in, relatively speaking, large 
umbels, on stalks of from 6 to g inches in length. Like 
