1S8 ALPINES AND BOG-PLANTS 



fleshy root-stock immediately. Nor, to console myself, do 

 I imagine that many people in England are so favoured 

 as to find Lewisia Tweedyi a really sound, trustworthy, 

 outdoor plant. For pots, perhaps ; but for the rock- 

 garden it is useless to cope with plants who fly beyond 

 any mere soil-requirement, and want you to alter the 

 entire climate of the country before they '11 condescend to 

 thrive. 



Primula, Gentiana, and Androsace are races far too 

 great to be huddled together without distinct and definite 

 treatment, but they each have a number of smaller clans 

 dependent on them, which give us a few good and one or 

 two brilliant plants. The Cyclamens come first, of course, 

 and what uninitiated person is there who would believe 

 that these are reckoned cousin s-ger man to Primula ? 

 They don't need detailed discussion, although so charm- 

 ing, so I will only say that autumn-blooming Cyclamen 

 europaeum is the most delightful of plants for naturalising 

 in light, loose woodland, while Cyclamen repandum is very 

 bright among the toughest grasses, with its fine flowers 

 of a rather tierce magenta-crimson. The most beautiful 

 of all, to my mind, is the new and very rare Cyclamsn 

 libanoticum — a dear little plant of the large-flowered, 

 spring- blooming section, with beautiful fleshy leaves, and 

 abundance of big, fragrant, peachy-pink blossoms — a trea- 

 sure from high glens of Libanos, which prospers with me 

 in sheltered places under Cistus LaurifoUus and big 

 Daphnes. Cyclamen coum, the wee winter-bloomer, I have 

 never cared for — the flowers are so preposterously small 

 and dull; nor have I collected Cyclamens long enough 

 for any discussion of the many confusing names that fog 

 the race; europaeum, neapolitanum, and hederaefolium 

 being all very close together, if not mere varieties or 

 synonyms; while vernvm does duty for repandum, and 

 ibericum with its form Atk'msi are twins to coum. 



