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and erect single stems, with bright 

 yellow flowers about 2 inches across. 

 It forms handsome specimens that 

 flower early, and its value as a choice 

 border plant can scarcely be over-rated. 

 It may be propagated easily by cuttings, 

 which should be put in when the shoots 

 are fully ripened, so that the young 

 plants may become well established 

 before winter. H . elodes is a pretty 

 native plant suitable for the banks of 

 pools and lakes. H. nummularium 

 and humifusum, both dwarf trailers, 

 are also desirable for the rock garden. 

 Owing to their dwarf compact growth, 

 several of the shrubby species are well 

 suited for the rock garden. Of these, 

 the best are H. csgyptiacum, balearicum, 

 empetrifolium, Coris, patulum, uralum, 

 and oblongifolium. The last three are 

 larger than the others, but as they 

 droop they have a good effect among 

 the boulders of a large rock garden, or 

 on banks. H. Moserianum is a hand- 

 some hybrid kind raised in France 

 and well worth a place. 



HYPOLEPIS (New Zealand Brac- 

 ken). H. millefolium is a very elegant 

 New Zealand Fern, with a stout and 

 wide-spreading rhizome, from which 

 arise erect light green fronds, i to 

 i feet high, very finely cut. Its 

 hardiness is proved by the fact that it 

 has flourished for two or three years 

 in a Surrey garden, and was also quite 

 hardy and vigorous in Mr F.Lubbock's 

 garden in Kent. It thrives in a shel- 

 tered nook and in peaty soil. 



HYPOXIS. Low-growing plants, 

 mostly natives of S. Africa. They 

 have grassy foliage and yellow flowers, 

 are tender, but are sometimes planted 

 out in summer, in light, sandy soil, in 

 warm borders. The kinds grown are 

 erecta, elegans, stellata, and villosa.. 



HYSSOPUS OFFICINALIS (Hyssop). 

 A little pot herb which has some 

 beauty grown on a rock or wall, and is 

 worth a place apart from its use in the 

 herb border. S. Europe. 



IBERIS ( Candytuft) .Valuable 

 hardy perennials and annuals, the 

 perennials somewhat shrubby and 

 evergreen, and precious as rock .garden, 

 border, and margining plants : 



I. CORIFOLIA. A dwarf kind 3 or 4 

 inches high, and covered with small white 

 blooms early in May. Few alpine plants 

 are more worthy of general culture, either 

 in the rock garden or the mixed border, 

 for the front of which it is well suited. 

 Easily propagated by seeds or cuttings, and 

 thriving best in light sandy soil. Sicily. 



I. coRRE-iEFOLiA is known by its large 

 leaves, its compact heads of large white 

 flowers, by flowering later than other 

 common white kinds, and both the flowers 

 and the corymb are larger than in the 

 other species, coming into beauty about 

 the end of May, when the other kinds are 

 fading. It is excellent for the rock garden, 

 the mixed border, and is well suited for 

 the margins of beds of shrubs. Increased 

 by cuttings, not coming true from seed. 



I. GIBRALTARICA. A beautiful plant, 

 larger in all its parts than the other kinds, 

 with flowers of delicate lilac in low close 

 heads, in spring and early summer. Its 

 hardiness is doubtful, and it should, there- 

 fore, be planted on sunny spots in the rock 

 garden or on banks in light soil, and win- 

 tered in frames. Readily increased from 

 seeds. 



I. JUCUNDA. Distinct, growing about 

 2^ inches high, the leaves small, the 

 flowers in small clusters, flesh colour, 

 prettily veined with rose in early summer. 

 It does not possess the vigour of the other 

 evergreen Iberises, but it is fitted for 

 grouping with dwarf alpine flowers on 

 warm parts of the rock garden in well- 

 drained sandy loam. Syn. /. JEthionema. 



Iberis jucu nda . 



I. PETR^A. A pretty alpine species, 

 3 inches high, with a flat cluster of white 

 flowers, relieved in the centre by a tinge 

 of red, thriving among rock plants in well- 

 drained spots with plenty of moisture. 



I. SEMPERFLORENS. A shrubby plant, 

 with dense corymbs of white flowers, and 

 not suited for border culture, though 

 hardy enough to stand our winters when 

 grown at the foot of a south wall or in a 

 very sunny corner of the rock garden. 

 Under those favourable conditions it forms 

 a pretty evergreen bush in bloom nearly 

 all the year. Mediterranean islands. 



