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ALPINE FLOWERS FOR GARDENS 



[PART II. 



of a deeper blue and by stronger wiry 

 flower-stems, but, according to Mr Corre- 

 von, writing in the Garden, it is a distinct 

 species and a native of the Eastern Alps. 

 C. r. soldanellceflora is another distinct 

 form with semi-double blue flowers split 

 into many narrow divisions. 



Campanula turbinata ( Vase Hairbell). 

 A neat sturdy showy kind, the leaves rigid, 

 of a greyish-green, toothed and pointed, 

 forming stiff tufts from 2 inches to 3 

 inches high, and an inch or so above them 

 rise the cup-shaped flowers, of a deep 



Campanula turbinata. 



purple, and each nearly 2 inches across. 

 It conies from the mountains of Transyl- 

 vania, is hardy in our islands, not 

 fastidious as to soil, and is one of the 

 best plants for the rock-garden, on which, 

 in deep light soil, the flower stems some- 

 times reach a height of 6 inches or 8 inches. 

 C. Waldsteiniana (Waldsteiris Hair- 

 bell). A pretty little kind, 4 inches to 

 6 inches high, the flowers in racemes of 

 from five to nine blossoms each, of a pale 

 purplish-blue colour, with lobes spread 



out almost flat, so as to give the flowers 

 quite a star-like appearance. Forms 

 carpets for the rock-garden. Croatia. 



Campanula Zoysi. This plant grows 

 scarcely more than 3 inches or 4 inches in 

 height and bears pale blue flowers with 

 a rather long tubular corolla. It' is not 

 common, perishing in our changeable 

 winters. Alps of Austria. 



CARDAMINE (Ladies' Smock). 

 For rock-gardens, there are not many 

 of these attractive, but several deserve 

 cultivation in the marsh garden. The 

 double forms of our Wild Ladies' Smock 

 are pretty in such places, and among 

 other kinds worth growing are C. lati- 

 folia, C. trifolia, and C. asarifolia, all of 

 the sim'plest culture and easy increase 

 by division. 



CASSIOPE (Arctic Heath). Beauti- 

 ful dwarf alpine and Arctic shrub- 

 lets ; of great interest, but not easy to 

 grow in lowland gardens : they are 

 best in moist sandy peat, and in cool 

 but not shady spots among very dwarf 

 plants. Syn., Andromeda. 



Cassiope fastigiata (Himalayan C.). A 

 tiny shrub, with the leaves overlapped along 

 the stems, so as to make them square like 

 those of G. tetragona, but distinguished 

 from that plant by the leaves having a 

 white, thin, chaffy margin, and a deep 

 and broad keel. The flowers, of a waxy 

 white, produced at the top of each little 

 branchlet, are turned down bell-fashion ; 

 the reddish-brown calyx spreads half-way 

 down the waxy flowers. This, one of the 

 most beautiful Himalayan plants, is, hap- 

 pily, not so difficult to grow, though it re- 

 quires care. It has been successfully grown 

 by Dr Moore, in the Botanic Gardens at 

 Dublin, and should have a sandy, moist 

 peat soil. It thrives best in moist and 

 elevated districts ; but, safely planted in 

 deep, moist soil, and guarded against 

 drought during the warm season, it may 

 be grown in cool spots never shaded. 



C. hypnoides (Mossy C.). A minute 

 spreading, moss-like shrub, 1 to 4 inches 

 high, with wiry branches, densely clothed 



