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ALPINE FLOWERS 



[PART I. 



SOME DWARF AND MORE REFINED ANNUALS FOR THE ROCK- 

 GARDEN. 



We must be very careful in this case 

 or very vigorous ones, however good ; 

 colours of more popular than refined 

 large genera being named below, as 

 dwarfer annual kinds that are meant, 

 as elsewhere, having its own sway. 



Abronia 



Adonis 



Alyssum 



Anagallis 



Argemone 



Brachycome 



Calandrinia 



Campanula 



Clintonia 



Collinsia 



Erinus 



Eutoca 



Felicia 



Gilia 



Grammanthes 



Gypsophila 



Heliophila 



Iberis 



lonopsidium 



Isotoma 



Jasione 



Kaulfussia 



Koniga 



Leptosiphon 



Linaria 



Linum 



Malcomia 



Nemesia 



Nemophila 



Nolana 



to avoid coarse plants, 

 also, and particularly, 

 quality. In cases of 

 Campanula, it is the 

 individual taste here, 



Nycterinia 



Omphalodes 



Phacelia 



Phlox 



Platystemon 



Portulaca 



Sabbatia 



Sapoiiaria 



Schizopetalon 



Silene 



Sphenogyne 



Vesicaria 



Viscaria 



Whitlavia 



RAISING ALPINE PLANTS FROM SEED. 



The difficulty of getting plants in sufficient numbers to give 

 us broad effects has to be faced, and there is no royal route 

 to avoid it no one way of getting all we seek. We must 

 get our plants where we can, and in various ways, not trusting 

 wholly to Nurserymen, who rarely offer the plants liberally 

 by the dozen or hundred, so as to allow of effective grouping. 

 And it is not only this that often stops us, but the fact that 

 even easily raised plants are often sent out in such a feeble 

 state, that they are useless to clothe our miniature mountain. 

 So it will often be wise to raise kinds from seed ; as in that 

 way we get numbers to carpet our fairy fields; the greater 

 vigour of the seedling plant, and the chances of novelty or 

 variety that seedlings sometimes gives us. Moreover, there 



