SWALLOW-WOET 

 GENTIAN. 



y Q, God'iana asclfp'nidea, 



]|]NT1ANS speak nf the mountains 

 more emphatically than any 

 Howei's ol^ (lie oanlen ; and he- 

 eause they do so, the amateur 

 gardener is ajit to conclude loo 

 hastily that he cannot hope to 

 cultivate them, and thencefor- 

 ward may be haunted with a 

 dreamy disappointment. They 

 are not well adapted fur tuwn 

 gardens, hut the one before us 

 is an excejition to the rule, for 

 it will grow almost anywhere in 

 a dee]t sand\' soil, in a somewhat 

 open situation, shaded from the 

 mid-day sun and favoured with 

 constant moisture. It is, without 

 a doubt, the easiest of all the gentians to cultivate, and 

 ]:)artieularly well ada[)ted to plant in the front of a rhodo- 

 dendron bed, or in the coolest part of a good rockery, 

 in a soil of sand, loam, or gritty peat. It is difficult to 

 raise from seeds, but seeds that are scattered naturally 

 by the plant usually germinate and prosper. 



A large proportion of the gentians are peculiar in their 



