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flowers one from each rosette rosy-purple 

 with a yellow centre. It needs peat soil, mois- 

 ture at the root, and a rather shady spot ; its 

 leaves should be kept dry by planting in a wall 

 or between upright stones. Syn. A. ciliata. 



A. brigantiaca. A pretty plant thriving 

 only in sandy or granite soils and upon slopes 

 shaded from strong sun. It comes very near 

 .-/. camea, but with leaves of deeper green, and 

 pure white flowers. 



A. carnea. One of the best kinds, early in 

 flower, free, and easily grown in light soils 

 without lime ; being less dense and woolly than 

 many sorts it is not so apt to "damp off" in 

 winter. It does not form rosettes but little 

 spreading shoots covered with narrow pointed 

 leaves of grey-green, and heads of rosy or pink 

 flowers with a yellow eye. Water freely in dry 

 weather, and shelter from the sun in summer. 



A. ciliata. A scarce plant from the Pyre- 

 nees, growing in small, dense columns of deep 

 green leaves fringed along the edges, and 

 crowned in April and May by large stemless 

 flowers of bright rose. Granite soils. 



A. cylindrica, Though classed as a species 

 this little plant is very like the last and comes 

 from the same region. It forms mossy tufts of 

 rounded cone-like columns less than an inch 

 high, covered thickly with hairs, with while 

 flowers nestling in the centre during April and 

 May. Pyrenees. Syn. A. frutescens. 



A. foliosa. One of the Himalayan kinds, 

 beautiful in flower, and of free growth when well 

 established, making tufts a foot across in one 

 season. The leaves are not crowded into 

 rosettes but are large upon erect or trailing 

 stems, grey with pale hairs, and turning red- 

 dish-purple 'in the autumn. The rosy-red 



Androsace Sarmentosa (engraved from a group on rock-garden at Friar Park). 



Alps and Pyrenees, 6,000 to 8,000 feet. Seeds, 

 sown as soon as ripe. Syns. A. Lachenalii, 

 and puberula. 



A. carnea var. exintia. A form of the last, 

 hardier, more robust, and with larger flowers. 

 It grows quickly into tufts 3 inches high, and 

 if encouraged by dressings of light and gritty 

 soil the prostrate shoots send roots from the 

 under side. 



A. caucasica. A pretty little plant, new as 

 yet, and hardly known. Narrow leaves in dense 

 rosettes, with heads of bright pink flowers upon 

 very short stalks, during summer. Caucasus. 



A. Charpentieri. One of the choicest of 

 alpine plants, free in flower, and of strong 

 growth in sandy soils. Rosettes of tiny, downy 

 leaves in crowded masses, and rich rosy flowers 

 hardly rising above the leaves in June and 

 July, after other kinds have done flowering. 

 Thrives best in crevices of sandstone or granite 

 rock, facing south-west. Seed. Alps. Syn. 

 Aretia brevis. 



flowers come upon long stems from June to 

 September, and are large and in clusters some- 

 times of fifty flowers, lasting for a long time 

 in beauty. In good years seed ripens, and the 

 plant is easily grown from cuttings taken in 

 autumn and rooted in a cold frame, or from 

 offsets struck singly in small pots. It thrives 

 in limestone soil, made light with leaf mould 

 and grit, and mixed with plenty of broken 

 fragments ; in full sun, with moisture to the 

 root in summer. Himalaya. 



A. glacialis. In its wild state one of the 

 most beautiful, growing in loose flat tufts ot 

 branching stems clothed in downy leaves, and 

 covered during early spring with flowers ot 

 pink paling to white. Thrives in clefts of 

 sandstone rock, in full sun. Seeds. Alpine 

 summits (always granite) at 6,000 to 9,000 feet. 

 A. Hansmanni. Related to A. helvetica, 

 but of looser habit and flowers of soft pink. 

 Summits of the Tyrol, at 6,000 to 8,000- 

 feet. 



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