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means a common plant, and those who have it would do well to 

 place it in positions where it is likely to thrive and increase — in 

 light, rich, weU-drained soil on rockwork, or in borders, and 

 as, after the plant has flowered, the leaves attain the length of 

 nearly a foot, and are nearly or quite three quarters of an inch 

 across, a sheltered position, where they may not be torn by winds, 

 will be desirable. There is no more fitting ornament for rock- 

 work, and every lover of spring flowers or alpine plants should 

 try to increase and popularise it. 



LILIXTM TENTJIFOLIUM.— 5/«fl:// Scarlet Lily. 



Although the Lilies generally grow too tall for association 

 with the plants included in this book, this is such a tiny and 

 exquisite kind that it must not be omitted from any choice col- 

 lection of alpine plants. It will do for our puny artificial rock- 

 works what the Orange Lily does for the huge rocks of the 

 Piedmontese valleys. The stem is often scarcely six inches 

 high, but sometimes twice that height, bearing one, two, or more 

 flowers of a deep orange scarlet, the petals recurved so that- 

 they nearly touch their bases. The fiery, slightly pendulous, 

 flowers seem very large for such weak stems, clothed with leaves 

 not one-twelfth of an inch in diameter. The bulb is pear-shaped, 

 about the size of a walnut, and with white scales, by means of 

 which, like all Lilies, it may be propagated. A native of the 

 Caucasus, and in this country requiring a sandy peat, or very 

 free loamy soil, in a well-drained and warm position. It will 

 associate with the choicest summer-flowering alpine plants on 

 level spots on rockwork. When planted in borders, it should be 

 in some spot not likely to be dug or disturbed by persons not 

 aware of its value. I am inclined to think that there are several 

 different plants going under this name ; one dwarf but very 

 sturdy kind, which I obtained from Holland under this name, 

 is certainly distinct. Mr. Wm. Thompson, of Ipswich, states 

 that the seeds of this brilliant plant vegetate with as much cer- 

 tainty as those of any ordinary annual, and this should induce 

 us to raise it in that way. 



LINAEIA hlSBVSK.— Alpine Toadflax. 



A TRUE alpine plant, from the Alps and Pyrenees, found on 

 moraines and debris of the mountains ; allied to the Snapdragon 



