THE WHITE ROCKERY 87 



it may have surmounted by the way ? " And there- 

 fore as a stranger give it welcome." This hardy 

 and courageous little traveller does exceedingly well 

 with me. 



Encrusted saxifrages occur again here with acantho- 

 limon and mentha requiena. The last goes and comes 

 curiously. This year I have large fragrant mats of it 

 in one place. Next year they will develop in another. 

 After flowering and producing absolutely the tiniest 

 blossom in my garden, the seeds ripen and become 

 scattered. Then they germinate and make new mats, 

 while the old plants gradually perish with the frosts. 

 Leptinella or cotula I know not which it should be 

 called is another dwarf with fragrant foliage ; but 

 this, like the acaenas, must be watched and kept in 

 bounds. On one side of a row of steps I have a 

 great border of alyssum. The seed-case of alyssum is 

 worth preserving. You will find it consist of number- 

 less tiny discs of pearl, like lunaria, or honesty, but far 

 smaller and daintier. Anemones and a dwarf cydonia 

 with deep crimson blossoms come next; then follow 

 zauschneria procumbens and cerastium tomentosum 

 matted together. One blooms in spring, the Califor- 

 nian fuchsia's fiery blossoms appear in late autumn. 

 Magnolia stellata does well in a clump above a little 

 tank in which that grand American nymphaea, " James 

 Brydon," lives surrounded by small American ferns 

 and iris cristata. Gazania splendens tumbles about 

 later on in the year, and hard by, a very great favourite 

 of mine, cenothera eximium from Upper California, 

 opens its enormous and fragrant blossoms at the 



