78 Autumn Flowers Needed 



For some years, however, there has been an increased 

 demand for autumn-flowering plants for the rock gar- 

 den, and specialists are as keen in their desire to have 

 the best at this season as at all others. We rejoice at 

 the fact, inasmuch as an extended season of flowering 

 or gaiety at such a time will not merely provide an 

 increased interest in the department, but furnish a use- 

 ful opening for the would-be raiser of new plants who 

 is ever-seeking "for fields and pastures new." Just 

 now theije is a demand — ^not calculated to be a transient 

 one — for alpine plants flowering in autumn, and with 

 the demand the supply will presently come. Mean- 

 while, we can make the best use of what we possess, 

 and by planting them, in bolder groups or masses, or 

 even endeavouring to make autumn rock-gardening a 

 feature, be playing our part with the rest. In this 

 direction we shall find some of the hardy Heaths of 

 great service, as much by their dwarfness and free- 

 dom of flowering as by their amenableness to the work 

 we have in mind. 



In the subjoined lists of plants it may be noted that 

 some of the plants occur in more than one season. 

 This is frequently the result of a prolonged period of 

 flowering. Where such is the case the flowering of 

 the subject at the period indicated may be accepted as 

 fairly reliable. In others the time of flowering should 

 be regarded as approximately correct, much depending 

 upon locality, position, and the varying seasons. To 

 render the lists of greater service for ready reference 

 we have given the plants in their seasons : 



