238 ALPINE FLOWERS. Part II. 



that rise little more than an inch or two above the ground. 

 Requires peat, and, if planted on fockwork, should have a bed 

 of that material beneath it. A native of sandy "pine barrens" 

 in New Jersey, and easily to be had in our nurseries under the 

 name of Ledum thymifolium. There is probably more than one 

 variety in cultivation. 



LEONTOPODITJM AlSTSMblL.—Lionsfoot. 



A NATIVE of high sloping pastures on many parts of the great 

 continental mountain ranges ; a very popular plant with the 

 peasantry in many parts, and often sold in little bouquets in 

 Germany, where it is called " Edelweiss," which, translated, means 

 nobly white. The flowers are small, yellowish, and not orna- 

 mental ; the leaves covered with white down, like those of many 

 mountain composite plants, but it is at once distinguished by 

 that to which it owes its popularity — a beautiful whorl of oblong 

 leaves, springing star-like from beneath the closely set and some- 

 what inconspicuous flowers, and almost covered with pure white, 

 dense, short down. It is a perfectly hardy perennial, grow- 

 ing from four to eight inches high, and thriving in firm, sandy, 

 or gritty and well-drained, soil in thoroughly exposed parts of 

 the rockwork, and is one of the most interesting and desirable 

 inhabitants of the rock-garden. 



LETJCANTHEMUM KLSTSTJ-Mi.— Alpine Feverfew. 



A VERY dwarf plant, with smaJl fleshy leaves, deeply cut, and 

 hoary, and not rising more than half an inch above the sur- 

 face. It bears pure white flowers more than an inch across, and 

 with yellow centres, produced in abundance, and supported 

 on hoary little stems, from one to three inches long. It is a 

 rather, quaint and pretty plant, and well deserves cultivation on 

 rockwork, in bare level places on poor, sandy or gravelly, soil. 

 Sometimes known as Chrysanthemum alpinum and Pyrethrum 

 alpinum. A native of the Alps of Europe. Readily increased by 

 division or by seed. 



LETJOOJUM MSrVfTJiS..— Summer Snowflake. 



A RELATIVE of the Snowdrop, but not venturing above ground 

 nearly so soon ; though, as it flowers around London early in 

 April, even during cold seasons, there seems little reason why it 



