ALPINE FLOWERS FOR GARDENS 



[PART II. 



described in Europe as E. grandiftorum 

 var. albiflorum in Gardeners' CJironicle, 1888, 

 t. 77. It had also been described as E. 

 giganteum var. albiflorum. It is one of the 

 most beautiful of Erythroniums. 



Eiythronium giganteum has long been 

 known and grown as E. grandiftorum. 

 While its flowers are no larger than in the 

 other kinds, it excels all in height and 

 number of blossoms. I have often seen 

 it with eight or ten flowers, and once 

 with sixteen. The leaves are mottled 

 with white and brown, or deep brown ; 

 the flowers light yellow, with a deeper 

 centre, and often banded with brown. 

 The filaments are very slender, and the 

 style three-cleft. It can be distinguished 

 from E. grandiftorum by its mottled leaves, 

 from E. revolutum by the slender filaments 

 and small appendages. Its range is a 

 broad belt in the coast ranges from 

 San Francisco Bay north to Southern 

 Oregon. 



E. citrinum resembles E. giganteum, 

 but has an undivided style. The leaves 

 are mottled, the flower light yellow, with 

 an orange base. Southern Oregon. 



E. Henderson! is another species also 

 closely resembling E. giganteum, but easily 

 distinguished by its undivided style and 

 purple flowers with an almost black centre. 

 Southern Oregon. 



E. Howelli. This alone of the western 

 Erythroniums has no appendages at the 

 base of the petals. By this character, 

 with its undivided style, it can always 

 be identified. The flowers are pale yellow 

 with an orange base. Southern Oregon. 

 CARL PDRDY, in Garden. 



FRAGARIA(^raw;&em/). Thewild 

 strawberry is very pretty on banks, 

 and occasionally most useful on 

 old mossy garden walls, where it estab- 

 lishes itself. One kind, F. monophylla, 

 is a beautiful rock-garden plant, 

 with large white flowers. The Indian 

 strawberry, F. indica, is a pretty little 

 trailer, bearing many red berries and 

 flowering late. All are of the easiest 

 culture in any not too wet soil, and 

 of facile increase by division. 



FRANKENIA UEVIS (Sea Heath}. 

 A very small Evergreen, with 

 crowded leaves like a Heath. Common 

 in marshes by the sea in many parts 

 of Europe and on the east coast of 

 England. Best for the rock-garden, 

 but mainly of botanical interest. 



FRITILLARIA (Snakeshead). 

 These distinct and graceful bulbous 

 flowers are so hardy and free in many 

 soils, that there is no need of rock- 

 garden luxuries for them. But in 

 this large group of plants there are 

 rare and beautiful kinds which the 

 variety of surface and of aspect in a 

 well-formed rock-garden may be very 

 welcome to, and some American and 

 European plants of this race are very 

 striking and deserving of our best 

 care. Their singular grace is charm- 

 ing on a carpet of rock plants, which 

 can be easily established on any 

 aspect of the rock-garden. The lovely 

 yellow kinds, although long in cultiva- 

 tion I have seen them admirably 

 drawn in Dutch pictures two hundred 

 years old are slow to establish in 

 gardens, and I found aurea tender 

 in Sussex. This, no doubt, arises from 

 the fact that in their own countries 

 they lie under the snow until the winter 

 is quite gone. 



Mr Carl Purdy, writing to the 

 Garden from California, says that some 

 American kinds, including those of 

 most striking beauty, are woodland 

 plants, and, therefore, in planting them, 

 we ought never to omit plenty of leaf 

 mould. The shrubby rock-garden I 

 so heartily advocate will give us for 

 these plants the little shelter and 

 half shade which is desirable. 



The following are a few of the more 

 select for the rock-garden, omitting 

 our handsome native Snakeshead, 

 which grows so freely in grass in any 

 moist field. In so large a family, there 



