1 1 6 A Toy Forget-me-Not 



with gritty loam annually, if not more often. A. 

 glaciali^ is not infrequently found in the soaking wet 

 parts of the Moraine, where with perfect drainage 

 obtaining it is usually a success, a fact which culti- 

 vators would do well to keep in mind. Perhaps, how- 

 ever, the most consistently failing and ungrowable of 

 all woolly-leaved alpines is Eritrichium nanum, a 

 cushion plant of the high Alps, of but an inch or so 

 high, whose tiny leaves are thickly beset with silky 

 hairs, and whose tufts in Nature are said to be almost 

 hidden with exquisitely blue flowers. In lowland 

 England this Toy Forget-me-not is but rarely seen, 

 and imported plants, after giving a few scattered 

 flowers, invariably perish. This may be due in part 

 to the conditien of the plants received, since it is not 

 only difficult to collect : it suffers much during transit. 

 Partial success has been secured by raising it from 

 seeds in moist, finely chopped sphagnum and grit, and 

 if seeds were available in quantity seedling-raising 

 would be the better way. And the sight of a few of 

 its flowers will reward the cultivator of any pains he 

 may have taken. 



Against these there are silky or woolly-leaved 

 alpines which give the cultivator comparatively little 

 trouble: Edelweiss; Origanum Dictamnus, which, 

 being a trifle tender, requires protection; Asperula 

 tuberosa, pinky tubes on hoary tufts; Artemisia 

 glacialis, Senecio incanus, Onosma alba roseum, and 

 O. Bourgaei, all of which are quite content with rather 

 dry sunny spots in deep, gritty loam. Of importance, 

 too, are Androsaces lanuginosa and its variety Leicht- 

 lini, A. sarmentosa, and A. Chumbyi, a set difficult to 

 equal for flower beauty and utiUty combined. Revel- 

 ling in full sun all, and delighting in a mixture of 

 gritty loam and old mortar rubble, those last named 

 are benefited by an annual mulch of like material finely 

 screened, and, rooting anew into it, take on an 

 increased vigour and development, which in turn are 

 responsible for an enhanced beauty at flowering time 

 another year. 



