38 ALPINE OR ROCK PLANTS. 



PAET II. 



MAIN COLLECTION OF ALPINES. 



As there are many Alpine-plants that will not en- 

 dure the severity of our winters, and some, that can- 

 not be exposed at all in this climate it hence becomes 

 necessary to have a plant or two of each, according 

 to the genus or species, in pots, that they may, with 

 more facility, be covered or protected during severe 

 or frosty weather. This will also afford the means 

 of replacing any plants which may have died during 

 Winter on the Rockery; it will serve, besides, for 

 giving a better acquaintance with the names, and a 

 general knowledge of each genus and species, which, 

 when in pots, can be more advantageously studied, and 

 correctly tallied ; and, when in flower, the seeds of 

 some, which are annuals, are more easily collected for 

 general propagation. 



As it not unfrequently happens, that a suitable 

 place for the main assemblage of these cannot be 



