242 ALPINE FLOWERS. Part II. 



Northern Europe, Asia, and America, and sometimes of cold 

 bogs or rocky elevated situations in Britain, occurring in fir woods 

 in a few places in Scotland and Northern England. It loves a 

 sandy peat and moist soil, and may be grown on the rockwork as 

 a trailer, the shoots being allowed to fall down over the faces of 

 the rocks, or in mossy rocky ground among bushes, on the fringes 

 of the artificial bog, or in some half-shady position in the hardy 

 fernery. It usually enjoys a somewhat shady position, but, if in 

 proper soil, will bear the sun. Where there is not a place for it 

 in the, rock-garden, it may be grown in large pots of moist peaty 

 earth, .allowed to stand in water in the open air during the summer 

 months. On a northern window-sill it will do very well, placed in 

 a cold" frame in winter, and it may be tastefully used in the indoor, 

 as well as in the hardy, fernery. Readily increased by division, 



LINUM tJSS\^S^31lL.— Alpine Flax. 



A DWARF and quite smooth Flax, growing only from three to 

 eight inches high, and bearing very large dark-blue flowers in 

 summer. It is' most readily distinguished by its external sepals 

 being acuminately pointed, and the internal ones obtusely pointed. 

 A charming rock-plant, native of the Alps, Pyrenees, and many 

 hilly parts of Europe, thriving well in warm well-drained spots 

 on rockwork, in a mixture of sandy loam and peat. There 

 are several varieties — alpicola, collinum, and crystallinwrnj L, 

 anstriacum is intimately related to it, and scarcely sufficiently 

 distinct from a horticultural point of view. 



LINUM A'RBO'RETJM.—£verg-rem Flax. 



This is the neat, glaucous-leaved, dwarf, spreading shrub, with 

 a profusion of clear handsome large yellow flowers, an inch and 

 a half across, sometimes seen in our gardens under the name of 

 L. flavum. Although said to be tender in the colder and drier 

 parts of the country, it thrives well in others in the open air, 

 even as a border-plant, and in all is well worthy of a position on 

 rockwork. A native of hilly parts of South-Eastern Europe, 

 Asia Minor, and North Africa ; usually propagated by cut- 

 tings. It is sometimes grown as a frame and greenhouse plant, 

 but should be tried everywhere in warm spots on dry border?, 

 banks, or rockworks. It begins to bloom in early summer, and 

 I h?.ve, seen it flowering for months at a time. 



