Part I. 



ALPINE SUCCULENTS. 



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Numbers of other useful alpine succulents will be found in the 

 lists of Sedunis, Sempervivums, and Saxifrages ; and many- 

 dwarf plants not succulent, such as small silvery Antennarias, 

 alpine Senecios, and the like, may be used in combination with 

 them. 



The ways of arranging these plants so as to secure the most 

 satisfactory effects vary much. They make the most exquisite 

 little geometrical gardens yet seen, and have also been used with 

 charming effect in the English or natural style of garden on 

 a miniature scale. For several years past they have been much 

 used in Battersea Park, on a series of irregular mounds 

 ranging from two to twelve feet high — a Lilliputian imitation 



^i&- 35- — 3Bed of alpine succulents, crested with dwarf Agave. 



of a hilly country — the whole simply formed by throwing up 

 earth. These little hills had very dwarf alpine plants for turf, 

 and neat specimen plants, hardy and tender, from six inches to 

 three feet high, for "trees.'' Two hills were covered with what it 

 is no exaggeration to say appeared like molten silver, and that 

 was Antennaria tomentosa. A little farther, and the " hills " 

 were covered with the dwarf sea-green Sedutn glaucum, and 

 dotted with the large metallic-hued Echeveria. Here and 

 there little pointed specimens of the dwarf Retinosporas dotted 

 over the earth, and presented the true pine-like aspect, while 

 a considerable variety of neat dwarf alpines occurred — among 

 those more largely employed, the pinky Sedum brevifoliu?n, the 

 little chubby Sedum dasyphyllum, dwarf Thyme, silvery-leaved 

 Veronica, Cobweb Sempervivum, and so on. Echeveria pur- 



