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Gardening for Amateurs 



Corydalis (Fumitory). Pretty rock among the best : Coum, and variety album, 

 plants, usually with graceful foliage and crimson or white, February or March ; 

 slender flowers in clusters. They are in- europaeum, crimson, August ; ibericum, red 

 creased by seeds or division, and thrive in or white, March ; neapolitanum, crimson, 

 any moderately light soil. The most white, &c., August to October, 

 generally useful for the rockery are : cava, Daphne. The Daphnes are choice dwarf 

 9 inches, purple ; cheilanthifolia, 12 inches, shrubs, loving partial shade and rather 



peaty soil ; they thrive best 

 when their stems are pegged 

 into the soil or kept down 

 by stones. Propagation may 

 be effected by layering in 

 July. The two best sorts 

 are blagayana, 12 inches 

 white, April ; and Cneorum. 

 rosy-red, May to July. 



Dianthus (Pink). There 

 are many lovely flowers 

 among the rock garden Pinks, 

 having grey or green leaves 

 and dainty, often fragrant, 

 flowers. Such as D. micro- 

 lepis and D. Freynii do best 

 in a moraine or when the soil 

 around them is covered with 

 gravel or stone chips. The 

 others thrive in sunny spots 

 in well-drained sandy soil on 

 rockwork, in walls, or in the 

 moraine. Propagation is 

 effected by seeds, division or 

 cuttings. The following are 

 the best : alpinus and vari- 

 ety albus, 6 inches, rose and 

 white, May to July ; caesius, 

 6 inches, June ; deltoides 

 and variety albus, 6 inches, 

 rose or white, summer ; fim- 

 briatus, 12 inches, pink, June 

 and July ; Freynii, 4 inches, 

 rosy -purple, June to August ; 

 fragrans, 12 inches, white, 

 June and July ; microlepis, 

 4 inches, whitish, June to 

 August ; neglectus, 6 inches, carmine, May 

 and June ; plumarius, 12 inches, pink ; Re- 

 quieni, 9 inches, pink, May to July. 



Draba. Useful little plants forming close, 

 moss-like mounds about 3 inches high, and 



Photo : R. A. .Malby. 



A rock garden Pink (Dianthus arenarius). 



yellow ; eximia, 21 inches, purple ; lutea, 

 12 inches, yellow ; and nobilis, 12 inches, 

 yellow, all flowering from spring until 

 autumn. 



Cyclamen. The hardy Cyclamen are 

 lovely on rockwork ; they like slight shade 

 and a compost of leaf-soil and loam with 

 which a little old mortar rubble is mixed. 

 All about 6 inches high. The following are 



bearing small flowers. They like sunny 

 fissures or crevices and gritty, loamy soil. 

 They are propagated by division or seeds. 

 Among the best are : Aizoon, yellow, March 



