CHOICE PLANTS FOR ROCK GARDENS 163 
OuRISIA COCCINEA.—To have a plant with blossoms 
of outstanding brilliance that will thrive in shade is a 
-special boon, for it may be used to great advantage as 
a contrast to the blues and purples of Veronicas and Cam- 
panulas and the yellows of (Enotheras, Ranunculus, Dra- 
bas, etc., or the whites of the mossy Saxafragas. Ourisia 
coccinea is therefore a plant we may cordially welcome. 
Its blossoms are like shining coral, the effect being enhanced 
by conspicuous white stamens. The flowering season is 
prolonged, spring, summer, and autumn finding the plants 
continuously in bloom. Cuttings will provide young stock, 
whilst a two or three-year-old clump will divide. 
PAROCHETUS COMMUNIS.—It is somewhat difficult to 
account for the fact that this unique little trailer remains 
uncommon and apparently slighted, for it is a sweetly 
pretty plant of quite distinct character, and has been in 
this country for fully a century, and yet is not often seen 
in the average collection of rock plants. Of trailing habit, 
the slender stems are clothed with three-lobed leaves, 
with a dark zone in the leaflets. The flowers are blue 
of a very rich dark shade, pea-shaped, sometimes borne 
singly and sometimes in twos and threes on short foot- 
stalks from the axils of the leaves. The flowering period 
extends throughout the summer months, and the plant 
grows well in ordinary soil either on flat patches of the 
rockery or in the alpine bed. 
PENTSTEMON.—Many garden owners have collections 
or selections of large flowered Pentstemons of what we 
term the “ florists’ varieties,’ and a very handsome and 
useful class of plants they are, but it is not of these I 
