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ALPINE FLOWERS FOR GARDENS 



[PART II, 



from 2 inches to 4 inches high, 

 having small white Daisy-like flowers. 

 Its chief beauty is in the leaves, which 

 are covered with a white downy sub- 

 stance. It should be grown in the 

 rock-garden in exposed places. Some 

 handsome kinds are too vigorous for 

 the rock-garden. 



Anthemis Macedonica. 



ANTHERICUM (St Bruno's Lily). 

 Graceful Lily-like alpine pasture- 

 plants, among the most beautiful of 

 hardy flowers. Though rather taller 

 than most rock-plants, their alpine 

 associations as well as their beauty 

 should give them a place among the 

 more vigorous plants or among the 

 rock-garden shrubs. 



Anthericum hookeri. A showy plant, 

 1 foot to 20 inches high, flowering in early 

 summer, bright yellow, nearly half an 

 inch across, freely in racemes, 3 inches 

 to 5 inches long. The leaves form dense 

 tufts in ordinary soil, but the plant 

 grows best in one that is moist and deep, 

 or in peaty bog. New Zealand. 



A. liliago (the St Bernard's Lily). From 



1 foot to 2 feet high, with flower-spikes 

 that bear numerous pure white flowers in 

 early summer. An easily grown plant, not 

 so pretty as the St Bruno Lily. 



A. ramosum has the flower-stems about 



2 feet high, much branched, and bearing 

 small white flowers ; it has narrow Grass- 

 like leaves, and the plant soon grows into 

 large tufts. 



Anthericum liliastmm (St Bruno's 

 Lily). A most graceful alpine meadow 

 plant, in early summer throwing up spikes 

 of white, Lily-like blossoms. The plants 

 must be protected from slugs and cater- 

 pillars, from attacks of which they are 

 liable to suffer. It thrives as a good colony 

 or group in an open space between dwarf 

 shrubs. Where plentiful, it would be 

 an interesting subject to naturalise in a 

 grassy place in cool soil. Syns., Paradisea 

 and Czackia. 



The major variety of the St Bruno's 

 Lily has much larger flowers (2 inches 

 across) than the wild plant, and has the 

 peculiarity of sending up large single 

 flowers from the root. These open before 

 the flowers on the spike, and are larger, 

 resembling the white blooms of a Pan- 

 cratium. This habit of the plant points 

 to it as distinct from the ordinary type of 

 St Bruno's Lily. It grows 3 feet high in 

 good soil, and is a fine plant, but though 

 many think highly of it, the species is 

 more elegant in form. 



ANTHYLLIS (Kidney Vetch). 

 Dwarf mountain plants of the Pea 

 family, of which there are some half 

 a dozen species in cultivation. As far 

 as now known, few are worth growing 

 on the rock-garden. 



Anthyllis montanus, the Mountain 

 Kidney Vetch, is a very hardy rock-plant ; 

 dwarf, about 6 inches high, the leaves 

 pinnate, and nearly white with down, 

 the pinkish flowers in dense heads, rising 

 little above the foliage, and forming with 

 the hoary leaves pretty little tufts. I 

 have never seen any alpine plant thrive 

 better on the stiff clay of North London. 

 Eesisting any cold or moisture, it is 

 among dwarf plants of the first order of 

 merit as a rock-plant. Alps of Europe ; 

 division and seeds. 



A. erinacea is a singular-looking, much- 

 branched, tufted, spiny, almost leafless 

 shrub, about 1 foot high, with purplish 

 flowers. 



A. Vulneraria (Woundwort). A 

 native plant, is pretty, and well worth 

 growing on d ry banks. There are varieties, 

 white and red. 



