PART II.] 



ALPINE FLOWERS FOR GARDENS 



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Although the flower is little more than 

 ^ inch across, there is a bright look about 

 it which makes it welcome. It will grow 

 almost anywhere, not appearing to suffer 

 from wireworm, as most other Pinks do, 

 and often flowers several times during the 

 summer. Seed or by division. 



Dianthus dentosus (Toothed Pink). A 

 distinct and pretty Pink ; dwarf, with 

 violet-lilac flowers, more than an inch 

 across, the margins toothed at the edge, the 

 base of each petal having a regular dark- 

 violet spot, giving the effect of a dark eye, 

 nearly ^ an inch across. It comes readily 

 from "seed, and should be raised periodi- 



Flowers in July and August ; native of 

 Bosnia. 



Dianthus glacialis, a brilliant alpine 

 Pink. It does best in crevices of the rock- 

 garden, as high up as possible, in peaty or 

 leafy soil, well mixed with granite chips. 

 It forms compact tufts of narrow leaves 

 which, during the summer, are thickly 

 studded with rosy-tinted flowers. In the 

 variety 



D. glacialis gelidus the habit is much 

 the same, the flowers being rich rosy -purple 

 spotted white in the throat. 



D. Knappi. Distinct by reason of the 

 sulphur-yellow flowers in clustered heads 



The Cheddar Pink (D. ccesius) in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh. 



cally, as the once-flowered plants often die. 

 A native of southern Russia, flowering in 

 May and June, and thriving in sandy 

 soil. 



D. Fischeri (Fischer's Pink). A beauti- 

 ful, and as yet rare, species from Russia, 

 3 inches to 4 inches high, blooms in 

 summer ; of a light rose colour, with the 

 petals not much cut, and solitary. De- 

 serves a good position in the rock-garden, 

 in moist, sandy, or gritty loam. 



D. Freynii. A dwarf alpine species, 

 with linear glaucous leaves and purplish 

 flowers about f of an inch in diameter. 



after the manner of D. Cruentus. The 

 species attains 12 inches or 15 inches high, 

 grows and flowers freely, and gives seeds 

 in plenty also. By this latter means the 

 plant may be grown in quantity. 



D. monspessulanus.- Flowers some- 

 what resemble those of D. superbus, but 

 not quite so deeply cut. A useful rock 

 plant. 



D. neglectus (Glacier Pink). Forms, 

 close to the ground, tufts like short, wiry 

 Grass, of glaucous leaves, from inch 

 to 1 inch long, the flowers on stems from 

 1 inch to 3 inches high. The petals are 



