174 ALPINE FLOWERS. Part II; 



Wherever placed, rather damp sandy soil will be found to suit it 

 best. A native of North America, in damp cold woods. 



Growers of British plants may like to possess Cornus suecica, 

 but I have not seen it either well grown under cultivation, nor is 

 it so ornamental as the preceding. 



COEONILLA MINIMA.— Z'war/^j/ C. 



A DIMINUTIVE evergreen, generally prostrate, rarely rising more 

 than a few inches above the ground, and of a glaucous green. 

 The small rich yellow flowers are freely produced, six to twelv? 

 in each crown, in April and May. It is a plant of easy culture, 

 and well worthy of a warm spot on rockwork, where its tiny 

 shoots may lap over the stones. A native of France and 

 Southern Europe ; not particular as to soil, and readily increased 

 by seeds or division. Deep light soil in sunny fissures will suit 

 it best, and in such places its diffuse little stems will be seen to 

 greatest advantage. 



COKONILLA ■^kBlK.—Rosy C. 



A VERY handsome, free, and graceful plant, with a profusion of 

 pretty rose-coloured flowers, widely distributed on the Continent, 

 and found on many of the railway banks in France and Northern 

 Italy. It forms low dense tufts, sheeted with rosy pink, which 

 attract the traveller's eye, their beauty and dressy appearance 

 marking them among the weeds which inhabit such places. It 

 ought to be grown in every garden as a border-flower, or for natu- 

 ralising in semi-wild spots. Perhaps, however, the most graceful 

 use that could be made of it would be to plant it on some tall bare 

 rock, and allow its vigorous shoots and bright little coronets to 

 teem over and form a lovely curtain down the face of the stone. 

 It is also admirable for chalky banks, or for running about among 

 low trailing shrubs like the common Cotoneaster. When in good 

 soil, the shoots grow as much as five feet long, and it thrives on 

 almost any sort of soil. It is readily increased by seeds, which are 

 frequently offered in our seed catalogues. I have seen a fine deep 

 rose-coloured variety of this in the Jardin des Plantes which 

 would be well worthy of culture. It may occur in other col- 

 lections, and when the plant is much raised from seed, highly 

 coloured varieties may be selected. 



Coronilla montana, somewhat larger than the preceding 



