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PRACTICE OF GARDENING. 



PART III- 



o523. Propagation and culture. The same as for herbaceous plants, taking into consideration the dif- 

 ference in the soil and site. ^ 



SUBSECT. 5. Flowers for ornamenting Rocks, or Aggregations of Stones, Flints, Scoria; 

 formed in imitation of Rocky Surfaces, $c. 



6524. In strict propriety, mountain or rock plants only should be introduced on artificial rock-work ; 

 but natural mountains and rocks are always moist and cool, and the plants which have their habitations 

 there would not always thrive on dry ridges of earth and stones. On a small scale, therefore, choice is 

 generally made of such plants as are not tall and rampant, and as grow naturally in a dry .soil. In the 

 following list, as in the others, the most ornamental of them are distinguished by a letter (), and those 

 which flower the greater part of the summer by a figure (3), &c. 



Perennials. A chillea alpina 3, montana, 

 Ajugo alpina, pyramidalis 3, Alche- 

 milla alpina, pentaphylla, Alyssum 



montanumjmuralej^axatilejAr 

 alpina, apennina, baldensis, pulsatil- 

 la 3, p. major 3, Anthemis montana, 

 Anthyllis montana, Antirrhinum al- 

 pmum, Aquilejria alpina, Arabis al- 

 pina 3, bellidifolia 3, lucida 3, sibi- 

 rica 3,Arenaria montana 3, saxatilis 3, 

 Arnica montana 3, Artemisia rupes- 

 tris, Astragalus alpinus, hypoglottis, 

 montanus *, uralensis 3, Atnamanta 

 libanotis, Bartsia alpina 3, Betonica 

 alopecurus, Campanula carpatica 3, 

 collina 3, rapunculoides 3, rotundi- 

 folia, saxatilis 3 *, Cardamine pe- 

 trsea 3, Centaurea montana,Cerastium 

 dioicum, Cheiranthus helveticus 3, 

 Cherleria sedoides, Chrysanthemum 

 montanum, Cochlearia saxatilis, Cu- 

 cubalus behen, Dianthus collinus, 



hyssopifolius, plumarius, virginicus, 

 I)raba aizoides, ciliaris, stellata, Epi- 

 lobium montanum, Epimedium alpi- 

 num 3, Geranium pyrenaicum, Geum 

 montanum, m. minor, Gnaphalium 

 margaritaceum3,Hedysarum saxatile, 

 Hypericum montanum 3, Illicebrum 

 paronychia 3, Physalisalkekengi.Pim- 

 pinella saxifraga, Podalyria australis 3, 

 Potentilla rui>estris, Riibus articus 3, 

 chamaamorus 3, rosaefolius 3, saxati- 

 lis 3, Saxifraga aizoides, nivalis, op- 

 positifolia, pennsylvanica, petrsea, ro. 

 tundifolia, sarmentosa, Sedum for- 

 sterianum, giaucum, hybridum, ru- 

 pestre, sexangulare, vilfosum, Silene 

 alpestris, rupestris, saxatilis, saxifraga, 

 Telephium imperati, Teucrium mon- 

 tanum, Thlaspi alpestre, Thymus 

 vulgaris, Tormentilla reptans, Trifo- 

 lium alpestre, montanum, repens ma- 

 culatum, Valeriana montana, pyre- 



naica, Veronica montana, saxatilis, 

 Viola lutea, montana. 



Bull*. A Ilium carinatum, Fritillaria 

 pyrenaica, Omithogalum pyrenaicum, 

 Oxalis acetosella, violacea 3 s. 



Biennials. Alyssum deltoideum 3, Cam- 

 panula cervicaria3,thyrsoidea3,Car- 

 duus marianus, Carlina vulgaris, 

 Cheiranthus cheiri, incanus, Cochle- 

 aria glastifolia, Digitalis purpurea, p. 

 flo. aTbOjEchiumvulgare.Gnaphalium 

 luteo album, Hedysarum coronarium, 

 Marrubiumalysson.Teucrium monta- 

 num 3, Thlapsi saxatile,,VCTbena offi 

 cinalis 



Hardy Annuals. Alyssum caiycinum 3, 

 Antirrhinum chalepense*,Campanula 

 perfoliata, Geranium moschatum, 

 Momordica elaterium, Reseda odor- 

 ata, Scorzonera picroides, tingitana, 

 Silene acteon, behen, Trifolium po- 

 lonicum, Viola tricolor. 



6525. The ground-plan and figure of the elevation of the rock-work must, as in the case of the aquarium, 

 be made to harmonise with surrounding objects. Simple outlines and surfaces, not too much broken, 

 show the plants to most advantage, and are not so liable to ridicule as imitations of hills or mountains, or 

 high narrow cones, or peaks of scoriee in the Chinese manner, which are to be seen in some places, 

 A ground-plan, in the form of a crescent, or of any wavy figure widest towards the middle part of. its 

 length, and with the surface not steeper than forty-five degrees (fig. 619.) will be found well suited to the 



less durable materials, such as bricks, pudding-stone, scons, &c. which are found in flat countries. 

 Sometimes one side of such rock-works may be nearly perpendicular, in which case, if facing the north, 

 it affords an excellent situation for ferns and mosses. 



6526. In countries abounding with stone, massy and extensive pieces of rock-work may be formed, and 

 shrubs introduced as well as plants, so as to produce a scene of considerable beauty and interest. Its 

 base, and such parts as are near the eye, may be formed of masses of granite or bassalt ; selecting such 

 for the shady side as are already covered with mosses and lichens, especially the lichen atra-flavus, geo- 

 graphicus, ventosus, stellaris, &c. These vegetables will not grow on sandstone, and but seldom on 

 limestone, therefore stones of these earths should be kept as much as possible in the more distant parts, 

 where they will be partially covered with shrubs and plants, rooted in proper soil, introduced in the 

 crevices. When works of this kind are extensive, a winding walk or stair may be led over them, and 

 wells, or small reservoirs of water, introduced in some places for mountain bog-plants and aquatics, and 

 for keeping the whole mass moist and cool. 



SUBSECT. . Evergreen-leaved Flowers, m- -such as are adapted for preserving an Appear- 

 ance of Vegetation on Beds and Borders during the Winter Months. 



6527. A due proportion of ever green-leaved flowers is very necessary for enlivening borders in the winter 

 time, and more especially in dug compartments on a surface of turf, which, without some evergreen plants, 

 ook dreary by contrast with the verdant surface. 



pleno coer. 3, o. flo. albo 3, o. flo. pleno 

 albo 3, o. flo. pi. purp. 3. 



Bvlbt. Amaryllis lutea, Allium cana- 

 dense, Lilium candidum, Tulipa 

 gesneriana, Helleborus hyemalis. 



Biennials. Agrostemma coronaria, c. 

 flo. albo, c. flo. pi. rub. Anchusa 

 italica, paniculata 3, Dianthns arme- 

 ria 3, ferrugineus 3, monspeliacus 3 . 

 Uesperis matronalis, Ibens UnifoUa 3, 

 Lavatera arborea, Silene viscosa. 



