44 THE STORY OF MY ROCK GARDEN 



contrast to the way it languishes in any other soil I 

 have tried it in. When in April it is covered with its 

 dainty lilac coloured flowers, so as to hide the close 

 tufts of growth, it is indeed a pretty picture, and well 

 deserves its name " Beauty of the Rocks." 



In this wee moraine I also grow successfully such 

 gems as Campanula cenisia, only half an inch high, with 

 large solitary terminal flowers ; Camp, excisa, with its 

 thread-like stalks ; Camp. Zoysii, with its bells, so 

 curiously constricted at their mouth ; and perhaps 

 most showy of all, Camp. Allionii, which thrives at such 

 a rate that I am removing a part of the clump. (See 

 page 40.) Under any other than moraine conditions I 

 have never been put to this trouble before, this some- 

 what coy plant usually removing itself all too soon. Here 

 too, thrives Silene acaulis, the very picture of happiness, 

 nestled in a snug compact hummock among the chips. 



The illustration opposite shows how freely it 

 blossoms with me, despite the proximity to London. 

 I fully appreciate that the flowers are much more 

 sparse than on the lovely clumps eighteen inches or 

 more across, which we find in the Swiss Alps, one mass 

 of pink, but I have never yet seen it flower in this 

 country so profusely as in the mountains. 



One other plant in my moraine I must not fail to 

 refer to, and that is the one illustrated on page 45, 

 showing that gem Eritrichium nanum. A mono- 



