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HYPOLEPIS. 



THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



Hypericum uralum. 



may become well established before 

 winter. H. elodes is a pretty native 

 plant suitable for the banks of pools and 

 lakes. H. nummularium and humifusum, 

 both dwarf trailers, are also desirable for 

 the rock-garden. Owing to their dwarf 

 compact growth, several of the shrubby 

 species are well suited for the rock-garden. 

 Of these, the best are H. aegyptiacum, 

 balearicum, empetrifolium, Coris, patulum, 

 uralum, and oblongifolium. The last three 

 are larger than the others, but as they 

 droop they have a good effect among the 

 boulders of a 

 large rock - gar- 

 den, or on banks. 

 H. Hookerianum, 

 triflorum, aureum, 

 orientale are a- 

 mong the kinds 

 having some 

 beauty, but the 

 species from war- 

 mer countries than 

 ours are apt to disappear after hard 

 winters. H. Moserianum is a handsome 

 hybrid kind raised in France and well 

 worth a place. 



HYPOLEPIS (New Zealand Bracken}. 

 H. millefolium is a very elegant New 

 Zealand Fern, with a stout and wide- 

 spreading rhizome, from which arise erect 

 light green fronds, I to ii ft. high, very 

 finely cut. There can be no doubt about 

 its hardiness, as it has- flourished for two 

 or three years in a Surrey garden, and was 

 also quite hardy and vigorous in Mr. F. 

 Lubbock's garden in Kent. It requires 

 a sheltered nook and peaty soil. 



IBEEIS (Candytuft}. -Valuable hardy 

 perennials and annuals, the perennials 

 somewhat shrubby and evergreen, and 

 precious as rock-garden, border, and 

 margining plants : 



I. corifolia. A dwarf kind 3 or 4 in. 

 high, and covered with small white 

 blooms early in May. Few alpine plants 

 are more worthy of general culture either 

 in the rock-garden or the mixed border 

 for the front of which it is well suited. 

 It is probably a small variety of I. sem- 

 pervirens, but is distinct and true to its 

 character. Easily propagated by seeds 

 or cuttings, and thriving in any soil. 

 Sicily. 



I. correaefolia is known by its large 

 leaves, its compact heads of large white 

 flowers, by flowering later than other 

 common white kinds, and both the flowers 

 and the corymb are larger and denser 

 than in the other species. It is an in- 

 valuable hardy plant, and useful in coming 



into beauty about the end of May when 

 the other kinds are fading. It is excellent 

 for the rock-garden, the mixed border, 

 and the spring-garden, and is well suited 

 for the margins of choice shrubberies, 

 and may be used as an edging to beds. 

 Said to be a hybrid. Increased by cut- 

 tings, not coming true from seed. 



I. gibraltarica, a beautiful plant, larger 

 in all its parts than the other kinds, with 

 flowers of delicate lilac in low close heads, 

 in spring and early summer. It is a pretty 

 species, but does not rival the best white 



Iberis gibraltarica. 



border kinds. Its hardiness is doubtful, and 

 it should, therefore, be planted on sunny 

 spots in the rock-garden or on banks in 

 light soil, and wintered in frames. In- 

 creased by cuttings, as it rarely produces 

 seeds in our climate. Spain. 



I. jucunda, distinct, growing about 

 T.\ in. high, the leaves small, the flowers, 

 in small clusters, of a pleasing flesh 

 colour and prettily veined with rose in 

 early summer. It does not possess the 

 vigour of the common evergreen Iberises, 

 but it is valuable as a rock-plant, and is 

 fitted for association with dwarf alpine 

 flowers on warm and sunny parts of the 

 rock-garden in well-drained sandy loam. 

 Syn. I. yEthionema. 



I. petraea, a pretty alpine species, 3 in. 

 high, with a flat cluster of pure white 

 flowers, relieved in the centre by a tinge 

 of red, thriving among the rock-plants. 

 Many cultivators cannot succeed with it, 

 but it thrives in a well-drained position, 

 with plenty of moisture. 



