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foliage, hence useful as carpeting plants. 

 All are of the simplest culture in any 

 ordinary soil. These are good rock- 

 garden plants, and the pretty little 

 rosy heads of one form of the Mountain 



A. tomentosa (Hort.) is a plant of a 

 similar character that has been much 

 used as a dwarf silvery plant in the 

 flower garden. It is hardy, and of easy 

 increase and culture in bare spots. 



Anemone vernalis. (Engraved from a drawing by H. G. Moon.) 



Everlasting may be seen in the cottage 

 gardens of Warwickshire. These last 

 kinds only grow a few inches high, and 

 are very easily increased by division. 



ANTHEMIS (Camomile). Of the 

 kinds of these in cultivation there are 

 few worth a place on the rock-garden. 

 A. Aizoon is a dwarf silvery rock-plant 



