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that charming little plant, our native Wood- 

 ruff (Asperula odorata). Others even more 

 delightful are suitable for the rockery. They 

 grow in ordinary loamy soil in sun or partial 

 shade and are increased by seeds or division. 

 They form pretty little cushions of neat 

 foliage covered with dainty flowers. The 

 best are ciliata, 6 inches, white, June and 

 July ; Gussoni, 6 inches, pink, June to 

 August ; hirta, 3 inches, pink, July to 

 September ; nitida, 3 inches, white, July to 

 September ; and suberosa, 6 inches, pink, 

 June and July. 



of rockery Bellflowers is bewildering, yet pur- 

 chasers may choose with confidence from 

 the nurserymen's catalogues, feeling assured 

 that all are worth growing. Most of them are 

 easily cultivated in ordinary well-drained 

 soil or in a moraine, and benefit by partial 

 shade. Many can be raised from seeds and all 

 are increased by division. For a beginner 

 the following are among the best : carpatica, 

 blue, and carpatica alba, white, 9 inches, 

 June to October ; elatines, 6 inches, blue, 

 June to July ; garganica, and its varieties 

 alba and hirsuta, trailing, blue or white, 



One of the Rock Jasmines (Androsace Chumbyi). 



Aubrietia. These are among the most 

 useful of free-growing rock plants and form 

 sheets of foliage that are covered in spring 

 with showy flowers of various colours. 

 They like sun, but will thrive in slight 

 shade ; ordinary soil suits them. Propaga- 

 tion is effected by seeds, but named varieties 

 must be increased by division or cuttings. 

 Bridesmaid (pink), Dr. Mules (purple), Fire 

 King (reddish), Lavender (pale mauve), Moer- 

 heimii (pinkish), Souvenir de Wm. Ingram 

 (purple) are varieties of brilliant colouring. 



Campanula (Bellflower). The number 



June to September ; glomerata acaulis, 

 6 inches, blue, July ; G. F. Wilson, 6 inches, 

 purple-blue, May to July ; Hostii, blue, and 

 Hostii, alba, white, 12 inches, June to Sep- 

 tember ; portenschlagiana (muralis*), 6 inches, 

 blue, June to September ; pusilla, blue, and 

 variety alba, white, 4 inches ; and Stans- 

 fieidii, 6 inches, blue, July and August. 

 Other dainty little bellflowers are Campanula 

 pulla, pulloides, and G. F. Wilson, with 

 purple bells ; Allioni, narrow pale blue 

 flowers ; and turbinata, having blue saucer- 

 shaped flowers. 



