Directions for Specific Culture. 35 
Clematis alpina (Mts. of Europe). 
This plant and its varieties are all valuable on 
account of their dwarf, compact habit and early 
summer flowering. Plant on a sunny bank, having 
an open north-west aspect, in equal parts of coarse 
sandstone, grit, loam, and leaf-mould. 
Clematis X coccinea (Texas). 
A useful plant on large rockeries, where it can 
ramble over rocks, being very effective in autumn 
with its long Lapageria-like flowers. Plant in any 
aspect in good loam. 
Codonopsis ovata (W. Himalaya). 
‘Plant on an elevated part of the rockery, in a 
well-drained place, behind a stone, in deep sandy 
loam. As the chief beauty of the flower lies inside 
its hanging bell and is missed if this is unseen, the 
plant itself should be given such a position that it 
may hang over the front of the stone when it is in 
bloom and permit the flowers to be seen into from 
below. 
Colchicum libanoticum (Syria). 
This little bulb should on no account be omitted 
from the rock-garden, on account of its early and con- 
tinuous flowering from February to the end of March. 
It grows about 2in. high, and throws up four to 
five blooms varying from soft pink to pure white. 
Plant full south, in well-drained sandy loam. The 
very minute foliage never becomes unsightly. 
Colchicum Sibthorpii (Greece and Armenia). 
This is about the first bulbous flower to make 
its appearance in the autumn when the rockery is 
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