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the lower portion or pockets are best filled with hardy 

 evergreen ferns. 



In spring, as the alpine and other dwarf plants have 

 ceased flowering, they should be repotted and plunged 

 in beds of ashes in the open until the autumn frosts. 

 Cyclamen^ Goodyera, Shortia, and Galax should be placed in 

 a shaded position during summer. Cyclamen should never 

 be '* dried off." They sometimes remain four or five 

 years without flowers or fohage (yet alive) if this is 

 done. 



Selections 



The following may usually be had in early autumn, 

 as bulbs, corms, or roots, usually more or less dried : — 

 Adonis amurensis, and varieties ; Anemone blanda, and 

 varieties ; Bulbocodium vernum and B. v, foL var,y with 

 purple crocus-like flowers ; Chionodoxa, Luciliae^ and 

 varieties ; C. sardensis ; Colchicum crocifiorum ; Corydalis 

 tuberosa alba, etc. The following species of Crocus-, — 

 alatavicuSy ancyrensis, aureus^ biflorus, chrysanthus, corsicus, 

 dalmaticus nivens, dalmaticus violaceuSy Fleischeri, Imperati^ 

 luteuSy Korolkowiy nevadensis, Olivieri, reticulatus, Sieberi 

 Suterianus Tauri, Tommasinianus y vernus, and varieties, 

 versicolor, the last two the progenitors of many of the 

 various coloured Dutch varieties, which are also useful 

 for pot work ; the following Cyclamen : — Atkinsii, Atkinsii 

 album, Coum, Coum album, libanoticum, repandum ; Eranthis 

 cilicica. The following species of Galanthus (snow- 

 drop) : — caucasicus cilicicus, Elivesii, E. Cass aba, E. ochro^ 

 speiluSy Forsteri, Ikariae, Imperati, latifoUus, lutescens, 

 plicatus, etc. ; Hyacinthus ciliatus. The following species 

 of Iris : — alata, assyriaca, Bakeriana, caucasica, Histrio, 

 histrioides, persica, Heldreichi, Hausknecki, purpurea, and 

 Tauri, reticulata, sindjurensis, Vartani; Leucoium vernum 

 and L, v. carpathica (snowflakes) ; Muscari praecox (so- 

 called). Narcissus Bulbocodium, N. cyclamineus , N. minus, 

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