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plants enjoy a good loamy soil, and are propagated by 

 division in autumn. 



ANTHYLLIS MONTANA (Mountain Kidney 

 Vetch). — A useful Alpine, which produces downy leaves 

 and pink flowers in summer. It is a distinctly lime- 

 loving plant, yet will thrive in clay, and with its perfect 

 hardiness becomes a really useful thing, if not of the 

 first rank in beauty and merit. It may be propagated 

 by division in winter. 



ANTIRRHINUMS (Snapdragons).— Vl^ith the im- 

 proved forms of these plants that are now available we 

 have learned to look on them as florists' flowers, to be 

 grown under varietal names in beds, and are apt to lose 

 sight of their usefulness for other purposes. There is no 

 reason why colonies of the intermediate forms should 

 not be grown in large rock gardens, especially on the 

 hmestone, which they love. They may be given the 

 poorer chalky spots, not because they are unworthy 

 of anything better, but because there will be no excess 

 of vigour in them, and they will flower profusely. No 

 summer blooming plants will prove more useful for dry 

 banks. They are easily raised from seed, which, if 

 sown under glass in spring, and the seedlings pricked 

 off, will give flowering plants soon after midsummer. 

 If a colour that is particularly desired should appear, 

 it might be well to make sure of it by taking a few 

 cuttings and striking them in a frame, in case it should 

 not reappear in the next batch of seedUngs. Yet some 

 of the florists* selections, sold under varietal names 

 which indicate their colour, come true from seed. 

 They have been fixed by several years' careful selection. 



