ANDROSACE. 



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easy to grow well, but does best in deep 

 fissures between upright rocks ; it may 

 also be grown on the flat, in peat and 

 sandy loam between buried stones. Cen- 

 tral Pyrenees. 



A. SARMENTOSA. Leaves silvery with 

 hairs, in dense rosettes, from which 

 spring a few larger spoon-shaped leaves 

 around the base of the flower-stem, and 

 slender runners which spread and root in 

 all directions. This kind spreads fast, 

 when kept from damping by a layer of 

 fine stones under the shoots and a glass 

 shade in winter. It thrives in free lime- 

 stone soil, firmly wedged between masses 

 of rock in a sunny spot. The runners are 

 easily layered and detached when rooted. 



A. SEMPERVIVOIDES. A rare plant, 



Androsace Villosa. 



Plant firmly in good, free soil, with lime 

 rubble and sandstone fragments to keep 

 it well drained. The downy leaves need 

 shields of glass in winter. Seed. 



A. VILLOSA var. CHAM^JASME. A beau- 

 tiful alpine plant known as the Rock Jas- 

 mine, inhabiting a vast range through 

 Europe, Asia, and the Arctic regions. 

 Though like villosa in flower it differs from 

 it in leaf and habit, with a branching root- 

 stock, spreading clusters of fringed leaves, 

 and stout flower stems several inches high, 

 bearing three to six flowers. These change 

 from white to yellow, pink, and crimson, 

 opening from May to June, and borne in 

 long succession. It is one of the best and 

 easiest of rock plants to grow in open soil, 

 mixed and surfaced with broken lime 

 rubbish or slate dust, 

 thriving in full sun. 



A. VITALIANA (Syn., 

 Douglasia). Like a tiny 

 Furze bush, hardly an 

 inch high, with silvery 

 leaves dusted over with 

 white powder, and many 

 flowers borne singly. Dis- 

 liking dry or heavy soils, it 

 does best in full sun, set 

 in buried stones and free 

 sandy loam mixed with 

 pebbles and heath soil. 

 Runners and seeds. Alps, 

 Pyrenees and Sierras of 

 Spain. 



Androsaces are often 

 high alpine plants, and 

 it is only on the well- 

 formed and cared-for 

 rock gardens that one 

 may grow more than a 

 few kinds. 



pretty, easily grown, spreading by runners, 

 and bearing clusters of pink or purplish 

 flowers upon a stout stem in May and 

 June. Its tiny leaves curl in dense cone- 

 like rosettes, at times only half an inch 

 across, but often larger in gardens ; the 

 new snoots only take this curled form as 

 they mature. This is one of the best of 

 the Indian kinds, quite hardy, and growing 

 well upon mounds of granite soil packed 

 with stones. Kashmir and W. Thibet, at 

 11,000 feet. 



A. VILLOSA. A plant of wide range, 

 from the Alps and Pyrenees eastward to 

 Kashmir and the Himalayas, where it 

 grows at elevations of 12,000 to 17,000 

 feet. The Western form is dwarf, with 

 neat rosettes of shaggy leaves so thickly 

 set with white or pale pink flowers that for 

 the time the plant lies hidden. The Indian 

 variety is of larger growth and blooms 

 later, its leaves silvery with long, white 

 hairs, and loose heads of flowers with a 

 raised ring of darker colour at the centre. 



ANDRYALA. Small plants of the 

 Dandelion order ; some with woolly 

 leaves. The shrubby A . mogadorensis 

 forms snowy masses on a little islet 

 on the Morocco coast, and has not 

 been found elsewhere. It bears flowers 

 as large as a half-crown, of a bright 

 yellow, the disc being bright orange. 

 Little is known of its culture and hardi- 

 ness. A. lanata has woolly silvery 

 leaves, and grows well in any soil not 

 too damp. 



ANEMONE (Windflower}.K noble" 

 family of tuberous alpine meadow and 

 herbaceous plants, of the Buttercup 

 family, to which is due much of the 

 beauty of spring and early summer of 

 northern and temperate countries. In 

 early spring, or what is winter to us in 

 Northern Europe, when the valleys of 

 Southern Europe and sunny sheltered 

 spots all round the great rocky basin 



