Gardening for Amateurs 



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Aubrietia Dr. Mules. Alas ! that I must 

 confine myself to one variety of Aubrietia, 

 when there are such opulent beauties as 

 Lavender, with its great shining blossoms of 

 pale luminous lavender in solid sheets, Fire 

 King, in carpets of barbaric crimson, and 

 Lloyd Edwards, in fiery imperial purple. 

 The Aubrietias are splendid colour patches 

 for spring, easy on any fair 

 soil, happy either on the 

 flat or in forming trailing 

 curtains down steep rock 

 faces. Dr. Mules, an old 

 variety, is still one of the 

 very best, particularly valu- 

 able for its compact habit 

 and deep rich purple colour- 

 ing. Aubrietias should be 

 increased by division of the 

 named sorts in late summer. 

 Seeds are easily raised, but 

 usually give inferior varie- 

 ties, though occasionally a 

 good sort may come. 



Campanula Garpatica 

 (The Carpathian Bell- 

 flower). A fine tufted 

 Campanula growing 9 to 

 12 inches high, with 

 branched upright wiry 

 stems bearing large violet, 

 cup-shaped " bells." It is 

 a variable plant, and a 

 packet of seeds wih 1 give 

 many pretty forms, or there 

 are named varieties, such 

 as pallida, with pale laven- 

 der flowers, Biverslea, deep 

 purple, and White Star, 

 pure white, etc., which may 

 be increased by cuttings or 

 division. Another attrac- 

 tive variety is turbinata, with large purple 

 flowers on very short unbranched stems, but 

 the true plant is by no means easy to 

 procure. Ordinary soil, in sun, on the flat. 



Campanula muralis. A pretty trailing 

 Campanula which covers slopes among rocks, 

 or spreads out on the flat in a torrent of 

 violet bells. Any good soil seems to suit it 

 and it does not object to partial shade from 

 rocks. It is also an excellent wall plant. 

 Easily increased by division or from cuttings. 



Campanula pusilla Miss Willmott. An 



exquisite dwarf Harebell, running freely in 

 any fair loam, and covering the ground with 

 masses of soft shining silvery-blue bells. It 

 is not only one of the finest rock plants of 

 recent introduction, but may safely be placed 

 among the first six essential alpines. The 

 type C. pusilla. is a charming plant, with 



Yellow Alyssum, or Gold Dust (Alyssum saxatile). 



fewer bells of less size and of a less luminous 

 and shining blue than the variety Miss Will- 

 mott. There is, besides the variety Miss 

 Willmott, a charming pure white variety 

 called alba. Both should be increased by 

 division, whilst the common type may be 

 grown from seed as weh 1 as division. 



Dianthus deltoides (The Maiden 

 Pink). A pretty native ; very easy and 

 very showy in the rock garden. Forms 

 patches of narrow green leaves, from which 



