THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
[Marcu 21, 1857. 
192 
m e fen ee 
. with which the Alps adorn ig Lowey Flora.t An The ee n reaches from 4400 to 55 
SKETCH OF THE SWISS ALPINE FLORA, | beautiful spot it A inviting to rest from our fatiguing ‘it eleva In su laces and on came sl 7 
AND THE ent !—on all sides fice Bag a wning rocks | where i snow sooner melts awn away, the soi 
Pe TT à and glitteri moni by ae Nature in her grandest | from snow the end o till October, but i 
CULTURE OF ALPINE PLANTS. pow, ering ns deep inter and dead | shad y or - amais only rtd r% middle tt 
ye 
R. E. Recet, Director of the Imperial apo a 
nslated from the German GIES. > 
attraction of aus. soenery 
unt: it 
E napas 
werful is the 
n 
silens, only at laterali. broken 
nche, swee ees 
of an avala 
mountain ony id which aie still far 
If y 
a ries ! hw 
light the tourist visits the Swiss mounta feel humiliated by sp thine 0 
pag a for a short while from the habitual | pigm Pas Saale so crushed by th e overpowering reer 
f everyday life—to bre tl re and | of the surrounding scenery, the reviving sunshine an 
o mie MRS whi ich is so wonderfully invigorat-| the smiling flower tell us a tale of a great but kind 
ing we bear up regia against fatigues and hardshi ips Providence, which seems to pervade the whole wonder 
which, at a lower level, would soon overpower us,—and | ful scene, and fin ds also an entrance to our h 
to imprint the mind ith that peculiar beauty and his is buta slightly ched picture, adorned only 
deur of scenery which f mory a source | with the most familiar forms of Alpine plants, which we 
the most agreeable and impressive recollections ! ve offered i n introduction to our sub- 
x. Urs ubtedly m ert ch of tainous | ject. H it—this question has certainly been 
untry is above to be found in the various forma- | repeated by Na a tourist return om scenes such 
aaa and the giant ee a a be rock and moun- | as we left just now cory S collect with great care and 
tains themselves; but where in landscape still greater expense pla ata from all quarters of A 
ery, the Davy had ‘thats a important globe, and neglect and overlook he treasures of our 
influence on the character of the landscape er down e Flora? $. Or if f they are indeed cultivated i in a few 
0 rests, the owery meadows, and AA tl 
yonde rupt towering walls of bare rock, the | —the greatest 2 yas bug being grown in small pots, bee 
w hich bor . | they seem to 
ad i f species 
f trees and consequently a greater sameness in the 
characte those d en Alp 
a charming 
would teg the iit scenery have lost its chief 
ns? 
We ade still hi gher, the larger trees dwindle down 
stunted bushes, the splen endid Rose of the Alp spree 
h | and hav 
| be perm 
distant countries, 
their 
as strangers from 
kendit recalling the days that we met them in 
mountar 
tried to cultivate Alpine plants in the open 
ground a # larger oe profiting by our experience as 
we went on, so that obtained at last a sure base, 
lidagi we da not t sueco in all instances. But before 
we eater - e dise 
ips aye a T lance on 
gay ai eee which affect the natural localities 
red p ean whole mountain slopes; in the short Grass at 
our feet flower the deep blue Gen os the pretty re 
Primroses, the Bluebell- shaped Soldanella, the beautiful 
yellow and w z of Anemones, the s 
Alpine Forget-me-not, the fine and intere resting species 
aris, and between 
of Bre plan 
. Difference ae Climate.—The climate is oe aire ay 
cause of the difficulties which we encou culti- 
na plants growing exclusively on high ta Toth or 
n the Arctic ni of our globe. 
d n 
now during the lon ng 
rm. 
native habitats. p Se ments 
Bot a i 
ts of Ger- 
epee. or under the climate of ha Fert, wher 
ntend to continue our experim Notw: ithstanding 
we have often heard the observation e visitors 
admirin ne ioniad 
in our nie collection, that the climate vf Zu 
cultur s Dat pager Zurich has only the d 
tages <a suc vicinity, such as sudden dit nges 
Em E late moms in ee and ory irh in a alh 
ned with a hotter s than is exper 
fragas re kind 
lcome amidst dark blocks of the naked rock, dazzling 
white fields of snow and the deeper colou s of 
e, with their ge oe ; Moia and deep fiss We /§ 
In ascending fi o the seipa sere we 
find a simi! ange of climate as if we were advancing 
from the equator towards the ag. ‘whieh eaan : 
marked effect on vegetation, mple, many o 
our Swiss mountain plants occur in A Og sai hinds fe 
wamps of northern Germany, such evtiana verna, 
ath w ip us steps, not sini at the 
t ‘that a single 2098 a might make us om and 
* The followi ha cn Type eS is Dran from the Excellent 
Seea horti artenflora, edited by 
Dr. E. Reece, The A magy ‘s vals Sp to the continental 
horticultural a ae emerge Amaran as one of the ablest practical | i 
me as one of those few men who 
combine in me oft omthagre oon actical experience of " eas 
with a rem arkahie amount of este an knowledge. ua- 
nic Garden at per ee 
Lot homed toa ted extent ys aratio: re treatm: 
at Zurich can boast now of a very prirent e collection of 
by his splendid work o 
n his 
(Sritaerand} Here 
e greatest | ti 
n 
y | nanum, as it 
à ge farinosa, ae page vulgaris, rica borealis, 
whi ge ould lead u suppo climate 
more barokni foe Aelia Alpine 
plants disk at Zurich, 
P r Heer, well known to the rae world 
n the Te: wi 
land, had long befo 
e himself 
In 
work aé divides gandar according * climate, 
~ the foll g five regio 
. The region, comprising that part of t 
Ph which | lies at an elevation of 3000 to 4400 ot 
above the sea level. Thi climate analo- 
p. to ps and eg of “the plants a to 
well as many others which belong properly to 
re ag stations but which descend and flou iva at this 
elevation, ean be grown without difficulty in our gardens, 
Map the winter lasts about six months, from November 
_—s 
‘we 
oe mentioned species are probably the most 
which grow on the Alps, ogony the latter. 
has for the first ype red Pls the he og 
will readil ind ‘the delight it 
f Myos otis abpeatete 
ood idea of the Eritrichium 
| + The 
| beantifal perro 
he botanist who 
Scottish mountains, 
This gem of the Alpine A 
s gem of the Alpine fori is only found at great elevations, 
bo in no inconsiderable degree adds solidus th tate oveliness, 
a interesting a, it is arney due to the indefatigable 
r. Re 
exert el, who after he left Switzerland wrote the 
following siete as a resumé of his ong e a a the treat- 
roa of gel plants. As his successor at Zurich, we feel 
experience in this much iere branch = 
plant ex eatar ‘should become more universally known, and w 
res oft cores aan of communicating to English Kes ht the 
visitng last su f our friend, 
o me 
D. Moo: of a fen a T eenei Dublin, those same 
scenes miich he so vividly depicts, and which attract every year 
many thousands of tourists Ipine F1 
reigns in all her i. M aie 
not only a but kindly promised his 
ora gee = — až U ai i from _ encouragement that msi w 
wing transla the indulgent notice of Englis 
readers.— Note of the Tran:lator. = an 
summer 
tate 
se the u ai pa zone of vegetation, which — 
be sed 
ogee mm ogee urs beget to us when | su 
d Gramineous 3 plants, must 
‘ore the ‘Britriehtum is psy ed, whose large deep eau 
blue howard suddenly burstin view, in elegant ‘little masses 
on the faces of roc i 
‘$ This eon is founde 
northern parts of Switzerland; sthe So th ] rd 
have somewhat t higher limits for a sagion whe ann = La bae 
d dry sum 
n 
We have atid this question ourselves many a time, | V 
u 
| from i e Yitlauy to high mountains would ae ee their 
sadva 
June till 
3. The ‘tipi te region is considered to lie between 
5500 to 7000 penae supra-marine elevation, In suny 
ee an a deel ities the snow disappears pw. 
the of June to October, but on ei places or be 
alias especially “towards the upper limits, the 
e year ro 
remains a 
4, The subn ane i “extends from 7000 to 8599 
soil a ape 
middie of er. 
he se o i oe covers the highest moun 
tops from "8500 feet upwards ; and it is only in 
month of ms that a few steep and sunny hn 
ever free from s 
n looking Tepes on these divisions we have in the 
ng tem 
same proportion as we ascend a decreasing 
a shorter —. longer continuing snow co 
lastly, a tempera sibs of a a“ comparatively higher 
1 
compared 3 with the ambie 
that th 
the Alpine specie 
procumbens, &c., seek the terrestrial warmth and cre 
close along the avin’. Plants ese regions whi 
have been grown in ere ecome there more lu 
uriant in foliage but produce owers. The Silene 
acaulis, for example, iis to the Alpine plants 
ascend to the regions ; the high 
we meet this lovely plant the dwarfer and more com- 
pact its growth e ab ly and the 
deeper coloured ers, so that in such just 
s frequently quite concealed by one sheet of blog 
Cultivated in th the plant gets much larger, 
but the flowers are less numerous and of a pale redd a 
ue. Plants from the montane region, such ; 
Grasses, Phleum alpinum, Poa alpina, &c., rie ; 
to the Alpine mai oma ivale ay get 
dwarf ; but x nsplanted i ne © gardens, 
soon regain reste ize, or ev 
xceed it, 
Those whe collect Alpine eae Ta culation 
to take care therefore not only to dig them out 
ood ball of the zoil around the roots, but 
replant them to clean them of all the other 
oe] 
get m 
such plants branches which showed a tend he 
rect, eir vecetati haracter is entirely which 
from that of the Mountain Pine (Pinus peni whilst 
high regions also c g the Eron Ya makay 
lower down it grows to tall trees, "e 
therefore, a difference between those pol consider 
plants whic d fro t country 0 the it 
able heights, and whi e there, under s 
for considerable altitudes, and which in reste? Tto 
= — subjected to the usual tres 
oe en plan it ‘ig less 
G-nerally speaking it is my conviction tbat hich 
tl e heat Er ir summers than their long duratione « 
renders 
= 
of rest, 
each region which are re se tt 
pt usually hot mem — as the last (1 
si the — melt te ima a igher up. iat canes 
e fore ions t highest 
mountains. The oldest iene here did not gt member to ha a 
the mountains m than th 
l Tommie: 
re free 
Note of th i from snow 
rni, but pv e hottest peri si of the 
begins, and eoii follow the long ey 
which prolong their growing season 
longer than is beneficial to their constitution 
(To be continued.) 
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dense. | 
me Correspon srawberri wee 
bass had letters from various and 
plaining that the res is small, bard, # and 
e Black Prince very distinct sort, eral 
uced 
ro psa treatment. a “tine vo gom hlari 
with great succes ful to 
wr cab ay of paresis believing it will be : ‘eat 
our podenn an that by ado mire for heavy 
aren with som like certainty the first 3 
of fine well the, 
Il flavo traw od grou 
san npon Easy in July July dis a rrer om 
Spee 
