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ALPINE FLOWERS FOR GARDENS 



[PART II. 



of the Himalayan Gentians, and one of 

 the easiest to cultivate. In the south of 

 Scotland it does well, but then alpine 

 Indian plants find there a congenial home. 

 Near London, on a north aspect, it has 

 flowered well. The compost in which it 

 grows is a rich peaty mixture, and it 

 receives copious waterings during the 

 summer months. It forms a tuft, or 

 rosette, of smooth leaves about 3 inches 

 long, from the base of which rises the 

 flower-stalk, and from the upper joints 



short stalks bearing single flowers, each 

 an inch broad, and of the brightest azure- 

 blue, in July and August. Himalayas. 



Gentiana macrophylla. A taller kind, 

 with lower leaves from 10 inches to 12 

 inches long. Flowers blue, small, numer- 

 ous, borne in closely set heads. It comes 

 very near G. cruciata, from which it is dis- 

 tinguished by the size and shape of its 

 leaves, and, lastly, by the lobes of the 

 corolla standing erect instead of spreading 

 out. 



Gentiana, Q. macrophylla. (Engraved from a photograph sent by Aliss Willraott.) 



