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peaty soil and rather shady positions. Propagation is by 

 division in spring. 



MORISIA HYPOGZEA. An exceedingly useful spring- 

 blooming plant, with verdant, deeply cut leaves and small 

 bright yellow flowers. Ordinary soil. Propagation by 

 cuttings and division. 



MYOSOTIS (FORGET - ME - NOT) . These popular 

 flowers are largely used in spring bedding, but one or 

 two species are well worth growing on the rockery, 

 notably alpestris (syn. rupicola) the true Alpine Forget- 

 me-not, which forms dense tufts about three inches 

 high ; the flowers blue with white eye. Elegant issima is 

 a variety of it. Stabiana, with lavender flowers in July, 

 is a less familiar plant, worth adding to the rockery. 

 Ordinary soil. Propagation by seeds and division. 



NARCISSUS. Some of the smaller kinds, such as 

 Johnstoni Queen of Spain, cyclamineus, Bulbocodium, 

 triandrus and the variety calathinus with white drooping 

 flowers, are suitable for the rockery. 



OMPHALODES VERNA. A pretty blue Forget-me- 

 not-like creeper, six inches high, blooming very early in 

 spring ; there is a white variety. Ordinary soil in partial 

 shade. Propagation by seeds or division in spring. 

 Luciliae blooms later ; it is a good blue-flowered Alpine. 



ONOSMA. There is one very popular plant in this 

 genus, namely, the " Golden Drop," Tauricum, which is 

 really a variety of stellulatum ; it has yellow, tubular, ' 

 drooping flowers borne loosely on a i-foot stem in early 

 summer, and has a faint Almond scent. There is no 

 prettier rockery plant. It likes a well-drained position ; 

 in a damp place it is liable to extinction in a wet winter 

 unless protected with glass. I grew it successfully for 



