134 ALPINE FLOWERS. Part II. 



work. In all cases it should have abundant moisture, is in- 

 creased by seeds, and in Britain flowers about the beginning 

 of May. 



ANDEOSACE TlTiiajJJSK.— Yellow A. 



Rarely grows above an inch high, and produces, scarcely above 

 the leaves, flowers large for so small a plant, and of the richest 

 and most pleasing yellow. On the Alps it reminded me of a Lilli- 

 putian furze-bush, looked at through the wrong end of a tele- 

 scope. It is lovely for association with the freer-growing Andro- 

 saces, dwarf Gentians, Primulas, &c. ; it may even be grown on a 

 border in a not too dry district where the soil iS' free and sandy. 

 A dry soil or a heavy one it does not like. On the rockwork it 

 should be kept abundantly supplied with water during the dry 

 months ; and when in suitable districts it is tried as a border 

 plant on the level ground, it should be surrounded by stones, 

 half plunged in the ground, to prevent evaporation, as well as 

 to protect it from being trampled upon. It is abundant on the 

 Alps in various parts of Europe, and is increased by careful 

 division or by seeds. It is also known by the names oi Andro- 

 sace lutea, Priviula Vitaliana, Aretia Vitaliana, and Gregoria 

 Vitaliana. 



Androsace Heerii, Charpentieri, Wulfenii, and Hazissmannii, 

 which are among the finest kinds, are not, I believe, yet intro- 

 duced ; and one or two annual kinds in the country are not 

 worthy of cultivation out of botanic gardens. 



ANEMONE KUS,K.— White Windflower. 



This is best described as a dwarf and stout Anemone sylvestris, 

 and is a native of Dauria, Russian Asia, the Crimea, and, doubt- 

 less, the Caucasus. I have not met with it in cultivation in 

 England, but have seen^it flowering very well in the open borders 

 in the' Jardin des Plantes, at Paris. The leaves were only a few 

 inches, high, and the handsome white flowers, somewhat like 

 •those, of the fine large-flowered variety oi Clematis montana, rose 

 an inch or two above them. Till plentiful, it should be grown 

 in deep fibry loam on the rockwork. Flowers in summer ; four 

 to six inches high. Propagated by division and by seeds. The 

 figure of this in the 'Botanical Magazine,' 47, 2167, does not do 

 justice to the plant. 



