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It is lost among coarse herbaceous plants, 

 and totally obscured by ordinary shrubs, 

 and should therefore be planted in the 

 bog-garden, or near the edge of a bed 

 of dwarf Heaths or American plants. 

 Wherever placed, rather damp sandy 

 soil will be found to suit it best. N. 

 America, in damp woods. 



Cornus suecica is a native of Northern 

 and Arctic Europe, Asia, and America. In 

 Britain it occurs on high moorlands from 

 Yorkshire northwards, and is a charming 

 little plant, flowering in summer, with 

 conspicuous, rather large white bracts, 

 followed by red fruit. It grows but a 

 few inches high, and has unbranched 

 stems from slender creeping rootstocks. 

 It should be grown in light soil or in 

 peat under the shade of bushes. 



CORONILLA (Grown Vetch). 

 Pretty shrubs, herbaceous and alpine 

 plants of the Pea-flower family, one or 

 two shrubs interesting and hardy in 

 the warmer districts, but the smaller 

 kinds hardy and free everywhere, 

 and in any soil. 



Coronilla iberica (Caucasian Grown 

 Vetch). A plant with glaucous foliage and 

 decumbent habit, not rising 4 inches from 

 the ground, and producing freely umbels 

 of yellow blossoms. Somewhat similar 

 in appearance, but much larger than our 

 own familiar Lotus corniculatus. It 

 flourishes admirably with its woody 

 roots well bedded in the rock-garden, 

 and will cover completely 2 or 3 square 

 feet of rock surface, when so placed. 

 The Caucasus. 



C. minima (Dwarf Crown Vetch). A 

 small evergreen herb, prostrate, glaucous 

 green, with many rich yellow flowers, six 

 to twelve in each crown, in April and May. 

 It is a plant of easy culture, and well 

 worthy of a warm spot on the rock- 

 garden, where its tiny shoots may lap 

 over the stones. Deep 'light soil in sunny 

 fissures will suit it best, and in such places 

 its diffuse little stems will be best seen. 

 Division and seeds. S. Europe. 



C. varia (Rosy C.). A handsome and 

 graceful plant, with many rose-coloured 

 flowers, frequent on many of the railway 



banks in France and Northern Italy. It 

 forms low dense tufts, sheeted with rosy 

 pink, and the most graceful use that could 

 be made of it would be to plant it on some 

 tall bare rock, and allow its vigorous shoots 

 and bright little coronets to flow over and 

 form a curtain. It is also admirable for 

 chalky banks, or for running about among 

 low trailing shrubs. When in good soil, 

 the shoots grow 5 feet long, and therefore 

 it should not be placed near the smaller 

 alpine plants, but rather among the shrubs 

 on banks near. Seeds. 



Coronilla montana is from 1 5 to 1 8 inches 

 high, and bearing many yellow flowers, 

 is somewhat too large for association with 

 small alpine plants, but, being a showy 

 species, is excellent for the rougher parts 

 of the rock-garden or among its shrubs. 



CORTUSA MATTHIOLI (Alpine 

 Sanide). Somewhat like the tender 

 Primula mollis, with large seven- or 

 nine-lobed leaves, the leaf- stalks and 

 the leaves covered with colourless 

 short hairs. A wiry thread of vas- 

 cular matter runs through the stem 

 leaves, and may be drawn through 

 the blades as well as footstalk of the 

 leaves, without breaking. The flowers, 

 borne on stems about 15 inches high, 

 are pendulous, and of a peculiarly 

 rich and deep purplish crimson, with 

 a white ring at the base of the cup, 

 six to twelve being borne on a stem. 

 It does well in the angle formed by 

 two rocks, where its leaves cannot 

 be torn by the wind. Flowers in 

 early summer, and comes from the 

 Alps. Increased by careful division 

 of the root, or by seed sown soon 

 after being gathered. 



CORYDALIS (Fumitory). All 

 these plants are attractive in some 

 way or other, and several kinds are 

 valuable, and as such deserving a 

 place according to their kind. The 

 following are among the more im- 

 portant : 



