Gardening for Amateurs 



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low rounded evergreen bushes 2 feet or more 

 across and 6 to 9 inches high. The flowers, 

 which last but a day, are produced in tremen- 

 dous profusion over a long summer period, 

 and resemble lit- 

 tle single Roses 

 with delicate 

 satiny petals. 

 There are yel- 

 low, red, salmon, 

 white, pink, cop- 

 per, and crimson 

 coloured varie- 

 ties, and several 

 double - flowered 

 forms. The sal- 

 mon is one of 

 the most effec- 

 tive of the sin- 

 gles, and Mrs. 

 Earle a gorgeous 

 double scarlet. 

 They are easily 

 struck from cut- 

 tings and must 

 be grown in full 

 sun. Any soil 

 suits them, but 

 they are especi- 

 ally useful on 

 dry, poor, sandy 

 soil. 



Iberis Snow- 

 flake (Ever- 

 green Candy- 

 tuft) forms a 

 useful rounded 

 cushion of ever- 

 green, sheeted 

 over in spring 

 with countless 

 heads of pure 

 white flowers. 

 This perennial 

 Candytuft is very 

 easy to grow on 

 any soil and is 



Lithospermum prostratum. A wonder- 

 ful plant of rather woody growth, yet trailing, 

 and with all the appearance of an ordinary 

 herbaceous alpine. In June it is covered 



One of the Alpine Phloxes (Phlox Stellaria lilacina). 



handsome either in or out of flower. It 

 should be given ample room, as in the course 

 of a few years it will cover several feet of 

 ground, but it may always be cut back, and 

 so kept bushy and within bounds. Easily 

 struck from cuttings. 



with a mantle of blue flowers, which rival the 

 Gentian in intensity and beauty. It is easy 

 in any sunny position, the one thing which it 

 will not stand being lime in any form. Sandy 

 peat is its favourite soil. It may be increased 

 by cuttings or layers and a single plant will 



