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GARDENING FOR BEGINNERS 



some 12 inches to 15 inches down, but sharply drained; for 

 more and more do I grow to distrust cemented bottoms, 

 unless, indeed, your slope is very specially rapid and your 

 climate of a very specially Saharan torridness. And in this 

 mixture, then, I will allow myself a free hand in choice, and 

 advise my friends to follow it without fear of disappointment 

 if they succeed. But it must be remembered that my selec- 

 tion is purely personal, haphazard and incomplete. Many 

 things are omitted simply as untried, such as Dryas ; and my 

 own blank failure hitherto with most Gentians and Potentilla 

 nitida in the moraine is very likely a mere matter of condi- 

 tions a little soil the more or some question of treatment 

 though I confess to doubting Gentians as a family for the 

 moraine, despite the fact that one of my G. Clusii is now 

 wearing a beautiful flower. But in one place very often I 

 think a given plant enjoys moraine, and yet refuses to put 

 up with another apparently like it somewhere else, where, 

 perhaps, the conditions are not precisely such as to suit it. 

 It was some time before any of my moraines suited Dianthus 

 neglectus, which forms huge, grassy masses in open and rather 

 inferior soil here. 



Androsace alpina (glacialis) 



i Rose white . . 



Date of 

 Flowering. 

 May-June . . , 



Soil. 



Non-calcareous, soft, 



cool and rich 

 Ordinary 



Non-calcareous 



Calcareous 



Ordinary 



Calcareous 

 Ordinary 



Ordinary or non-cal- 

 careous 



Non-calcareous 



Ordinary 



Non-calcareous, rich, 

 cool, and light 



Ordinary 



Very calcareous, nearly 



pure lime-rubble 

 Ordinary, cool 

 Ordinary, dry 

 Ordinary 



