14 ALPINE FLOWERS AND ROCK GARDENS. 



grim surroundings of rock, and think of the storms that 

 they must weather in their high mountain homes. 



Pictures of them in their surroundings have been 

 painted, and the favour they find is shown by the 

 popularity of Mr. Macwhirter's " June in the Austrian 

 Tyrol/' yet even in pictures Hke this the flowers do 

 not get all their due. They are but a part of the 

 landscape, and it is the artist's aim — and rightly so — 

 to give the main features of the landscape with its 

 lights and shades and the atmosphere of the whole. 

 Hence flower lovers have sought to obtain illustrations 

 of Alpines in their homes, in which the above conditions 

 are reversed, and the flowers themselves are the main 

 feature, and the surrounding landscape accessory to 

 them. 



