ANTENNARIA. 



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ANTENNARIA ( Cat's-ear) .Mostly 

 hardy alpine or border flowers. A. 

 margaritacea is a North American 

 plant, 2 feet high, with flowers in clus- 

 ters, white and chaffy, hence kept in a 

 dry state and dyed in various colours. 

 The pretty but rare A . triplinervis from 

 Nepal is closely allied to this plant. 

 The Mountain Cat's-ears, A. dioica and 

 A. alpina, and such forms as A. 

 minima, are neat little plants with 

 whitish foliage, used as carpeting. All 

 are of simple culture in ordinary soil 

 in exposed positions. These are good 

 rock garden plants, and the pretty 

 little rosy heads of one form of the 

 Mountain Everlasting may often be 

 seen in the cottage gardens of War- 

 wickshire. A. tomentosa has been 

 much used as a dwarf silvery plant 

 in the flower garden. 



ANTHEMIS (Rock Camomile}. 

 Vigorous perennials and rock plants. 

 Of the kinds in cultivation, A. Aizoon 

 is a dwarf silvery rock plant, 2 to 4 

 inches high, with Daisy-like flowers. 

 A . Kitaibeli is pretty in the mixed bor- 

 der, with large, pale, lemon-coloured, 

 Marguerite-like flowers. A. tinctoria is 

 similar, and both are excellent for 

 cutting, growing very freely in ordinary 

 soil. The double-flowered form of the 

 Corn Camomile (A . arvensis} is some- 

 times cultivated among annual plants. 





Ant /lean's M acedonica, 



A . M acedonica is a neat species with 

 white flowers, excellent as a rock 

 garden plant. There is also a variety 

 called A. nobilis. 



ANTHERICUM (St Bruno's Lily). 

 Bulbous plants of the Lily family, con- 

 taining a few species hardy in this 

 country. These are the European 

 kinds, among the most beautiful 

 of hardy flowers. A. Hookeri (Syn. 

 Chrysobactron) is a distinct New Zea- 

 land plant, 15 to 20 inches high, with 



bright yellow flowers, in long spikes 

 in early summer. It grows best in 

 moist, deep soils. A. Liliago (St 

 Bernard's Lily) is about 2 feet high, 

 with white flowers in early summer. 

 A. ramosum has flower-stems about 

 2 feet high, much branched, and small 

 white flowers. A. Liliastrum (St 

 Bruno's Lily) is a graceful alpine 

 meadow plant in deep, free, sandy soil, 

 in early summer throwing up spikes of 

 snowy- white Lily-like blossoms. Divi- 

 sion of the roots in autumn, or it may 

 be raised from seed. The major 

 variety of the St Bruno's Lily has much 

 larger flowers. It grows 3 feet high 

 in good soil, and is a fine border plant. 

 Replant when dormant. Increased by 

 division and seeds. 



ANTHOLYZA. These South Afri- 

 can plants occur sometimes in cata- 

 logues, but they are not such good 

 garden plants as the nearly allied 

 Montbretia, much improved as these 

 have been of late. 



ANTHYLLIS (Silver Bush).Dwari 

 mountain plants of the Pea family, of 

 which there are some half a dozen 

 species in cultivation. As far as now 

 known, few are worth growing on the 

 rock garden. 



A. MONTANUS, the Mountain Kidney 

 Vetch, is a very hardy rock plant ; dwarf, 

 about 6 inches high," the leaves pinnate, 

 and nearly white with down, the pinkish, 

 flowers in dense heads, rising little above 

 the foliage, and forming with the hoary 

 leaves pretty little trailing tufts. I have 

 never seen any alpine plant thrive better 

 on the stiff clay of North London. Resist- 

 ing any cold or moisture, it is among dwarf 

 plants of the first order of merit as a rock 

 plant. The variety rubra has darker red 

 flowers. Alps of Europe. Division and 

 seeds. 



A. BARBA-JOVIS (Jupiter's Beard) is a 

 shrubby plant of erect growth, with sil- 

 very, silky leaves and creamy-yellow 

 flowers in spring. Coming from Spain, it 

 is suited to a hot, dry place in the rock 

 garden, and in cold places is sometimes 

 grown against a wall. 



A. ERINACEA is a singular-looking, much- 

 branched, tufty, spiny, almost leafless 

 shrub, about i foot high, with purplish 

 flowers. 



A. HERMANNS. Not so pretty in 

 colour, is a grey bush of pleasant aspect, 

 flowering in summer and fitted for a sunny 

 place in the rock garden. S.W. Europe. 



ANTIRRHINUM (Snapdragon). A 

 numerous family of rock plants and 

 perennial herbs, mostly hardy and 

 many of them from mountainous 

 regions, but none so popular in gar- 



