140 ALPINE PLANTS 
well packed round the lower portion of the stem. The 
layers, when rooted, should be potted in sandy peat and 
loam, and from the pots they may be transplanted to 
their permanent quarters. Cuttings will root if stripped 
off with a heel, firmly fixed round the edge of a pot of 
sandy compost, and placed under a bell-glass in a shady 
place. The rooted cuttings should be potted and grown 
on until strong enough for planting ; and once established, 
the main plant should not again be disturbed. 
EPIGHA REPENS.—Fully entitled to a place among 
choice and select plants, this uncommon and extremely 
beautiful evergeen creeper, with waxy white flowers, slightly 
tinted with red, and strongly perfumed, is perfectly easy 
to grow. Why, then, is it very seldom seen? To my 
mind, there can be but one explanation, that it is not so 
well known as its merits would warrant it to be, and when 
seen by strangers to its identity, the refined and dainty 
appearance of the plant induces the fear that it is a plant 
of difficult character and delicate constitution, and is 
consequently passed over. Some peat in the soil, in a 
fairly damp and shady position, is the sum total of the 
special requirements of Epigzea repens, and such are by 
no means prohibitive demands for a plant that will 
produce pleasing foliage winter and summer, a show of 
pretty flowers from April to the end of June, dispensing 
delicious fragrance as well as charming appearance. It 
is a plant for which a trial is only required, to ensure its 
rapid advancement to a position of great esteem. 
EPpIMEDIUM.—Quite unlike any other plant, and remark- 
ably beautiful in foliage as well as flower, is my opinion 
